Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) explained
By EUvsDisinfo
Tanks or missiles are no longer the main weapon in the attacks on democratic societies. Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) has become...
Targeting the Grid, Shaping the Story: Russia’s Dual Assault on Ukraine
By EUvsDisinfo
Ukraine has emerged from its harshest wartime winter with its energy system battered by relentless Russian strikes designed to freeze civilians into submission....
Russian FIMI and the War in Iran
By EUvsDisinfo
Key Takeaways
FIMI outlets exploited the war in Iran to advance anti-Western and anti-Ukraine disinformation messages.
Narratives concentrated on energy crisis, using it as an...
Russia’s Information Grip on Ukraine’s Occupied Territories
By Elina Beketova, for EUvsDisinfo
Since Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the outbreak of hostilities in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, residents...
How Russia Lies About the War In the Middle East
By EUvsDisinfo
This week, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service rehashed old claims that European countries were planning to give Ukraine a nuclear weapon. FIMI narratives...
Russia – a women’s paradise?
By EUvsDisinfo
Have you ever paused at a glossy video promising that somewhere out there, families flourish effortlessly, women glow with confidence, and there are...
Russia’s Quest for Disinformation Gold
By EUvsDisinfo
Over the past week, pro-Kremlin FIMI outlets smeared Ukrainian athletes at the Olympics, declared France on the road to authoritarianism, and tried to...
Total Recall: Russian Attempts to Erase the Ukrainian Culture
By EUvsDisinfo
If history is the assembled repository of records from the past, culture is the process that brings it to life. The repository can be curated,...
Total Recall: How Russia Tried to Erase the Ukrainian Identity
By EUvsDisinfo
Imagine a world where your past is not yours – where every event, every hero, every town can be deleted and replaced with...
What the Kremlin Wants You to Believe About Its War Against Ukraine
By EUvsDisinfo
Five recurring false narratives the Kremlin uses to justify and distort its war against Ukraine.
Russia has carried out online disinformation and FIMI campaigns...