State memory: 1917 and Russian memory politics
By Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel, for Eurozine
‘Russian memory politics represses both the utopia and the violence. It wants neither to know about the perpetrators...
Bots create one third of Russian-language tweets about NATO presence in Eastern Europe
By The Baltic Times
Two in three Twitter users who write in Russia about the NATO presence in Eastern Europe are robotic or ‘bot’ accounts,...
The parade of lies: the power of fake proofs
By EU vs Disinfo
When the aim is to discredit the opponent as a hypocritical liar, the denigrator faces a problem: where to get the...
Security Experts Chide West On ‘Limited, Weak’ Response To Russia
By Rikard Jozwiak, for RFE/RL
A group of security and foreign-policy experts says Western governments have been "limited and weak" in their response to the...
How One Verification Team Worked to Debunk Misleading Information About the Japanese Election
By Nevin Thompson, for Global Voices
On Sunday, October 22, Japan went to the polls and re-elected the government of Abe Shinzo. The snap election, called...
Kremlin Watch Briefing: Were Russian social media ads really pro-Trump?
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In their most recent article, Franklin D. Kramer of the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security and Lauren M. Speranza of...
Fake: Ukrainian Military Looks for Conscripts in Monastery
Last week RIA Novosti reported that Ukraine’s military conducted a night raid on a Ukrainian Catholic monastery looking for conscripts. Korrespondent, Kremlin Press, Russkaya...
Putin’s Russification Program Far More Radical and Dangerous than It Originally Appeared
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
The conclusion of the Tatarstan procuracy that Russian language study is compulsory but non-Russian language study must be voluntary...
The Kremlin’s 1917 Revolution Problem
By Amie Ferris-Rotman, CodaStory
The 100th anniversary of the October Revolution brings difficult memories for modern-day Russia
The diorama showing how Ulyanovsk looked when Vladimir Lenin...
Fake: Ukrainian Shelling Kills Donetsk Boy
Scores of Russian media reported that on November 5 a ten year old boy was killed and another two were wounded as a result...