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Unusual vigor: In a WSJ interview, President Trump spoke about protecting the integrity of US elections from foreign interference and stated...
Putin’s ‘hybrid peace’ more threatening to Ukraine than his ‘hybrid war,’ Portnikov says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
Vladimir Putin’s rhetoric about Ukraine has changed in order to curry favor with Russians in advance of the presidential...
Fake: Crimean Tatars to Support Putin in March Presidential Election
As the March presidential election grows ever nearer, Moscow’s propaganda machine is actively pushing a new theme, that new Russian citizens from the recently...
Fake: Train from Ukraine Arrives In Russia Loaded With Mines
REN TV, one of the largest private federal TV channels announced this week that a train from Ukraine loaded with an explosive arrived in...
Non-Political Nature of Russian Population Both Helps and Hurts Kremlin, New Study Says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
The depoliticization of the Russian population via the revival of archaic values provides the regime with a reserve of...
Chief Editor: RT is like “a defence ministry”
By EU vs Disinfo
The chief editor of RT (Russia Today), Margarita Simonyan, cannot be blamed for lack of openness about the nature of the...
StopFake #166 with Marko Suprun
Fakes: America is preparing a new revolution in Ukraine; Ukrainian traces in the drone attacks on Russian bases in Syria, as well as fakes...
Fake: EU Bans Milk Sales from Private Ukrainian Farms
Russia’s propagandist newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta published an article claiming that the European Union has banned milk sales from small Ukrainian farms that do not...
Manipulation: US Preparing a New Revolution in Ukraine
On January 11 scores of pro-Kremlin media blazed with incendiary headlines such as US Threatens Ukraine with New Maidan, United States Preparing a New...
Russia Accuses Ukraine of Involvement in Syria Attacks on Russian Bases
Russia’s disinformation machine never tires of portraying Ukraine as an enemy. The latest manifestation of this narrative is to accuse Ukraine of involvement in...