Thursday, August 21, 2025

Modus Trollerandi Part 1: The Straw Man

By EU vs Disinfo How Democracy is SWAMPED: Seven Cheap Tricks Since 2015, EUvsDisinfo has detected, documented and debunked disinformation from pro-Kremlin media. All individual cases...

One plane and a lot of noise. Pro-Kremlin disinformation about forced landing in Minsk

By Debunkeu.org On May 23, the Belarusian authorities forced the landing of a Ryanair passenger plane with a pro-democratic Belarusian opposition activist Roman Protasevich, using...

Hushing Up Is Also Lying

By EU vs Disinfo Sometimes, what is not lied about is revealing. Seven years ago last week, a Russian military unit shut down Malaysian Airlines MH17, killing...

How to Fight the EU’s Balkan Information War

By Bruna Celic, Faith Leslie, for CEPA The European Union (EU) recognizes disinformation as a key threat to democratic life and yet lacks adequate tools...

Fake: Persecution Awaits Students from Crimea and the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics

Applicants' data is encrypted so that they are not persecuted in Russian occupied territories. Russian and pro-Kremlin publications Politnavigator, DPR 24, news aggregator SMI.Today and...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: Russian intelligence services undermine confidence in Western vaccines

TOPICS OF THIS WEEK Russian intelligence services keep undermining confidence in Western vaccines. Ukraine accused Russia of hacking the portal of the Ukrainian Navy. In response to...

Wisdom, Truth, And Falsehoods: Are We In Plato’s Cave?

By EU vs Disinfo Series on Disinformation and Philosophy Where is disinformation? This probably feels like a somewhat strange question. Of course, we could point at the...

The world cannot ignore Putin’s Ukraine obsession

By Peter Dickinson, UkraineAlert  Russian President Vladimir Putin has finally published his hotly-anticipated essay on the “historical unity” of Russians and Ukrainians, and it did not disappoint. This 5,000...

Moldova Parliament Elections – How Disinformation Did Not Work

By EU vs Disinfo On 11 July 2021, Moldova held parliamentary elections. The results show a convincing victory for the pro-European, pro-Presidential Party of Action...

“Hang Them From The Lamp Posts”

By EU vs Disinfo The “One Nation Myth” and Kremlin Imperial Revanchism on Ukraine Pyotr Tolstoy, Deputy Speaker of Russia’s Parliament and head of the Russian...