Reviving the Propaganda State
How the Kremlin hijacked history to survive
By CEPA
Are Western actions to blame for the steady deterioration in U.S.-Russia relations? While the Kremlin’s view of...
Militarily, Baltic region is stable; but in terms of information war, it’s not, Latvian...
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
The situation in the Baltic region militarily is “quite stable,” Andis Kudors says, not only because NATO has beefed...
Explaining Russia’s schizophrenic policy toward the United States
By Kimberly Marten, for PONARS Eurasia
(PONARS Policy Memo) The weaknesses and inconsistencies of Russia’s recent actions toward the United States need to be explained....
Propaganda targets Baltic energy independence
By Dalia Bankauskaitė, for CEPA
On 15 December, Lithuania’s floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Klaipeda began trucking LNG to Polish, Estonian, and Lithuanian...
Fake: AIDS From Donbas Sweeping Ukraine
Scores of Russian and Ukrainian media featured stories last month claiming the war in the eastern Ukrainian Donbas region, was causing a huge spike...
StopFake #167 with Yuri Polakiwsky
Fakes: Crimean Tatars to support Putin in Russia’s March presidential election; Kyiv residents want Russian social media back; Ukrainian train arrives in Russia carrying...
What (if anything) do Facebook’s News Feed changes mean for fake news?
Plus: Lessons from Bolivia and Slovakia, and what’s the reach of fake news in the EU?
By Laura Hazard Owen, for Nieman Lab
The growing stream...
Most people in the West make two fatal mistakes about Moscow ‘media,’ Yakovenko says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
Most people in the West continue to make two “fatal” mistakes about the media in Putin’s Russia, Igor Yakovenko...
Fake news kicks into high gear in Czech presidential runoff
By Alan Crosby, for RFE/RL
In the first round of the Czech presidential election earlier this month, Jiri Drahos was variously portrayed -- without substantiation...
Russians so overwhelmingly apolitical that poll numbers are meaningless, Kagarlitsky says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
Given that 90 percent of Russian society is “apolitical,” Moscow commentator Boris Kagarlitsky says, “it is impossible” to say...