Tuesday, September 23, 2025

The Daily Vertical: Not Just A Putin Problem (Transcript)

By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL "Krym Nash" was just the beginning. Crimea is not the only place and Ukraine is not the only neighbor where Russia...

‘Who Has the Most Selfies?’ Council of Bloggers Meets for First Time in Russian...

By Isaac Webb, for Global Voices Within days of announcing the creation of a “Council of Bloggers” in Russia's lower house of parliament, State Duma...

Beyond Fake News: How Trump’s Disruptive Technology Mirrors Russian Political Technology

By Lisa J Walters, for UCL Prof Andrew Wilson, Professor of Ukrainian Studies The investigation into the Trump campaign’s links with Russia has already uncovered many...

Oliver Stone has launched Putin’s re-election campaign

Putin is leveraging Western disciples like Oliver Stone to boost his changes of another term in office. By Alexey Kovelev, for The Moscow Times In a...

Head of Russia’s federal censor says he’ll appeal personally to Telegram creator to demand...

By Meduza The head of Roskomnadzor, Russia’s federal censor, told the news agency Interfax on Monday that he plans to appeal personally to Pavel Durov,...

Putin showed Oliver Stone a video where Russia’s Air Force supposedly attacked terrorists in...

By Meduza In Oliver Stone’s Showtime special “The Putin Interviews,” there is a scene where the Russian president shows Stone a video on an iPhone...

Russia uses money and threat of prosecution to hide Russian soldiers’ deaths in Ukraine

By Halya Coynash, Human Rights in Ukraine While whole villages, sometimes regions, come out to bid farewell to slain Ukrainian soldiers, Russians killed are likely...

Putin May Be Crying ‘Wolf’ Once Too Often, Gudkov Says

By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia After a brief break from its “besieged fortress” rhetoric, the Kremlin has returned to the idea that Russia is...

Computational propaganda in Ukraine: caught between external threats and internal challenges

Social media being used by governments to spread fake news and manipulate public opinion, finds first comparative study of automated political propaganda worldwide Social...

StopFakeNews #136 with Romeo Kokriatski

The latest edition of StopFake News with Romeo Kokriatski. This week we dissect two new Russian fakes about EU visa-free travel for Ukrainians and...