Dependent media – Russia’s military TV Zvezda
By East Stratcom
“The chemical attack in Idlib in Syria on 7 April this year was a piece of “fake news” and a staged operation...
Kremlin TV: Singing from the same hymn sheet
By East Stratcom
“The West is the cause of all problems in the world, whereas Russia is invariably the only source of positive hope”. This...
Jim Kovpak: Double Feature. Potential Russia grifter foiled
By Jim Kovpak, Russia Without BS
How tragic it is when a young, budding Russia grifter attempts to leave the nest an falls like a...
Russian Media: Ukraine-EU Summit Complete Failure
Summit failure, a most dire summit, a summit that ends in zilch – this is how scores of Russian media described the EU-Ukraine summit...
Fellow travellers: Russia, anti-Westernism, and Europe’s political parties
By Gustav Gressel, for European Council of Foreign Relations
SUMMARY
There is a large amount of ideological overlap between some European political parties and the Russian...
Twelve Myths about Change in Ukraine
By Alexander J. Motyl, for Atlantic Council
Most Ukrainians will tell you that “nothing has changed” since the Euromaidan Revolution. Meanwhile, most Ukrainian analysts bemoan...
Russian Justice Ministry bans 19th century book about persecution of Jews in medieval Europe
By Meduza
Russia’s Justice Ministry has banned a 19th century book by German Orthodox rabbi Marcus Lehmann about the forced conversion of Jews to Christianity...
Moscow leverages Qatar crisis disinfo to bolster Nord Stream 2
By Wojciech Jakóbik, for CEPA
Russian media uses the Qatar crisis to undermine Eastern European energy diversification and defend Gazprom’s controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline...
Baltic Forest Brothers did in 1940s what Russians did in 1991 – they fought...
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
The Kremlin-orchestrated attack on the Forest Brothers in the Baltic countries in the 1940s and on a NATO film...
Kremlin TV: Singing from the same hymn sheet
By East Stratcom
“The West is the cause of all problems in the world, whereas Russia is invariably the only source of positive hope”. This...