Improving the Western strategy to combat Kremlin propaganda and disinformation
By Anton Barbashin, for Atlantic Counsil
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Since Putin’s annexation of Crimea and military aggression in Donbas—and especially since the 2016 US presidential...
Baltic Brutality?
By EU vs Disinfo
A dark image of the Baltic states was (again), painted in pro-Kremlin disinformation this week. Firstly, the Latvian Army was accused of...
Fake: Ukrainian Parliamentary Speaker Called Neo-Nazi and Anti-Semite
What is a Kyiv Neo-Nazi doing in the French National Assembly, French MPs want to know – blared French Sputnik’s headline last week. The...
Putin and Trump understand propaganda; their liberal opponents don’t, Moscow commentator says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
An anonymous commentator on Telegram’s Red Zion channel who was picked up today by Novyye izvestiya says that both Vladimir Putin...
Scottish sheriff slams Russia’s fake justice system
By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake
Russian state witnesses used ad hominem attacks and whataboutism - standard tactics by Vladimir Putin’s regime – in a...
What Putin says about rights and freedoms in Russia vs. the facts
By Polygraph
Vladimir Putin
President of the Russian Federation
“Our mass media is free. People are free to speak out and make a name for themselves as...
Kremlin Watch Briefing: DisinfoPortal.org and Belt and Road Tracker launched, East Stratcom still needed
Topics of the Week
New projects to follow: Atlantic Council’s DisinfoPortal.org and MERICS’s Belt and Road Tracker.
Lithuanian MEP Laima Andrikiene: We still need East Stratcom against...
Russian journalist forced to resign for criticizing pro-Putin propaganda on Instagram
By Global Voices
On May 24, 2018, reporter Alexandra Terikova was forced to resign for posting an Instagram video of kindergarten students singing a song for Russian...
Austrian TV confronts Putin with the issue of disinformation
By EU vs Disinfo
Ahead of Vladimir Putin’s visit to Vienna on 5 June – his first trip to the EU after he was re-elected...
Fake: Hungary To Shoot down Ukrainian Airline
Russian media reported last week that Hungary sent fighter jets in pursuit of a Ukrainian aircraft that had violated the country’s airspace. Ukraina.ru, Russia’s...