Kremlin Watch Briefing: The West should learn from the Baltics
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The Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies has published a call for scholars to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship...
The Daily Vertical: Putin’s image police (transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL
Like any head of state, Vladimir Putin has an army of bodyguards to protect him.
But unlike most heads of state,...
Fake: Ukrainian Soldiers Reject Patriotic Greeting
Russian media claim that Ukrainian soldiers have rejected the popular post-Maidan revolution greeting Glory to Ukraine and are refusing to use it. They cite...
StopFake #170 with Romeo Kokriatsky
Fake: Ukraine Loses 50% of its GDP to Russia Sanctions ; 1.7 Million Ukrainians Asked for Asylum in Russia; Ukrainians massively fleeing to Europe;...
Fake: Since 2014 1.7 Million Ukrainians Asked for Asylum in Russia
On February 7 the official Twitter account of the Russian Embassy in the UK tweeted the following: since 2014, 1.7 million Ukrainians (3.8% of...
Manipulating Ukraine’s Demographic Crisis
Russian and Ukrainian media disseminated a story this week about an impending demographic crisis looming in Ukraine and the mass flight of Ukrainians for...
Russian Agitprop: Ukrainians Pass as Gay or Communist to Gain Asylum in Europe
Russian media are massively disseminating an article from the Ukrainian pro-Kremlin publication Vesti which claims that in order to be granted asylum in Europe...
Is Russian hacker Peter Levashov being mistreated in Connecticut prison?
By Polygraph
Consulate General of Russia in New York
"The Embassy urges the Department of State and Department of Justice to take urgent measures to respect...
Pranksters as pro-Kremlin propaganda
By EU vs Disinfo
They claim to have tricked the US Ambassador to the United Nations, presenting themselves as Poland’s Prime Minister. They have allegedly talked to...
Moscow Pre-Schoolers Being Taught to Hate America
By Paul Goble, Window on Ukraine
In what is a clear violation of Russian law but fully in line with Kremlin policy, kindergarteners in Moscow...