Friday, December 19, 2025

Russian Media Changes World Cup Goal Posts

Britain’s Foreign Minister Boris Johnson thinks it would be wrong to punish football teams and fans by boycotting the 2018 FIFA World Cup to...

Fake: OSCE Declares Russian Presidential Elections Open and Fair

Official Russian media presented the official OSCE report on the March 18 Russian presidential elections in a distorted and manipulative manner, omitting many of...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: US and UK strengthen their positions, the EU and the Dutch...

Topics of the Week The European Commission’s high-level group of experts have issued a report on disinformation. It has little significance in practice and completely...

The Daily Vertical: Russia’s real debate (Transcript)

By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL The most interesting thing that happened during yesterday's so-called election was a heated debate between a candidate who received less...

Russian media cite fake election observers

By Polygraph Thierry Mariani French politician “I have worked as an observer of elections for about 20 years and can say that in Russia I see improvements...

Final report of the High level expert group on fake news and online disinformation

By European Commission In January 2018, the European Commission set up a high-level group of experts ("the HLEG") to advise on policy initiatives to counter...

Figure of the Week: 50 million

By EU vs Disinfo The data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica took private information from more than 50 million U.S. Facebook users without their permission to...

Fake: Crimean Tatars Voter Turnout Greater for March 18 Russian Presidential Elections than Any...

The Kremlin claims that more Crimean Tatars turned out to vote in last weekend’s Russian presidential elections than in any elections held under Ukrainian...

Skripal Poisoning: If Not Russia, Then…:The many theories of who used a Russian nerve...

By DFRLab Ever since the British media began suggesting that Russia was behind the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal with a rare nerve agent...

Putin’s Vision of a New ‘World Order’ Increasingly Worrisome, Kirillova Says

By Paul Goble, Window on Ukraine It is perhaps emblematic of the times, but Vladimir Putin is increasingly using video clips and full-scale films to...