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...
Russia Day as a symbol of propaganda schizophrenia
By Ksenia Kirillova, for LB.ua
On 12 June, Russians marks a holiday known as Russia Day, possibly the most controversial date in the country’s recent...
The Power Vertical: Putin Has No Story To Tell (Transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, RFERL
Vladimir Putin has always been a very good storyteller.
First he told a story about how he was the man who restored...