The Daily Vertical: Rebranding the Donbas (transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, RFE/RL
Whenever the Kremlin or its proxies dream up a new name for Ukraine, it's often a sure sign that trouble is...
Kremlin-promoted mythologized Russian past opens the way to a return to stalinism, Orekh Says
By Paul Goble, Window on Ukraine
Many expected that with the passage of time, new generations of Russians would reject the worst aspects of their...
Russian news agency ‘RBC’ refuses to publish investigative report on a ‘secret torture prison’...
By Meduza
The news agency RBC refused to publish an investigative story by journalist Ilya Rozhdestvensky about a “secret prison” allegedly operated outside Moscow by...
Most requests to remove online content come from Russia, Google says
By The Moscow Times
Russia has come out on top of a ranking of government requests to have online content removed or blocked, according to...
Fake: Ukrainian Military Fire on OSCE Monitors in the Donbas
Following the latest escalation in fighting in eastern Ukraine in which nine Ukrainian soldiers were killed, Russian media have been disseminating fakes claiming that...
StopFakeNews #141 with Peter Dickinson
The latest edition of StopFake News with Peter Dickinson. This week we show how Russia reacted to the recent EU Ukraine summit, debunk a...
Advanced Guide on Verifying Video Content
By Aric Toler, BellingcatOne of the most common issues for researchers and journalists is verifying user-generated video content, most often found on social networks...
The Nazi-obsession of pro-Kremlin propagandists
By East Stratcom
We rarely see such a swift and aggressive reaction to a single video. But the Russian communication outburst to a recent eight-minute...
Crimean residents, Russians increasingly hostile and at odds, political scientist says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
Even Crimean residents who initially welcomed the Russian Anschluss are now disappointed with the occupation and angry at Russians...
To keep himself in power, Putin has created an off-putting ‘State of Fools,’ Yakovenko...
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
“By his planned cleansing of the political field of Russia” of anyone who might challenge him, Vladimir Putin has...