Russian state television accidentally broadcasts evidence that Moscow uses cluster bombs in Syria
The state-sponsored television channel RT aired footage of a Russian combat aircraft carrying cluster munitions in Syria at the Khmeimim Air Base. In a...
Russian propaganda claims soldiers who invaded Crimea were “peacekeeping mission”
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(right photo: Reshat Ametov, with two of his three children)
A monument to the victims of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars...
Information war monitor for Central Europe: May 2016 Part 1
GLOBSEC Policy Institute’s bi-weekly overview of conventional and social media discourse in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia monitors propaganda and disinformation attempts, as...
False Flags: The Kremlin’s Hidden Cyber Hand
For two years the so-called Cyber Caliphate has been the online weapon brandished by the Islamic State against its enemies. Its hacking offensive, including...
Russia stifles Serbia
The sudden cancellation of Prime Minister Aleksander Vučić’s visits to Brussels and Washington illustrates that Serbia’s new government remains susceptible to Kremlin pressure. Vučić...
Misleading headlines: Austria calls for gradual reduction of Russia sanctions
In their coverage of the news about the EU’s relations with the Kremlin, Ukrainian and Russian media reported that Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz...
Fake: Dutch PM Wants All Referenda Banned because of Ukraine
Scores of Russian and pro-Russian media (Ukraina.ru, Kremlinpress, NewInform, Kharkov, Informburo) are claiming that the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte wants to cancel all...
StopFakeNews #87 with Irena Chalupa
The latest edition of StopFake News with Irena Chalupa. This week’s fakes include accusations of Right Sector and Mossad involvement in the Marseilles football...
Fake from Die Linke: Ukrainian Parliamentary Speaker Denies Eastern Ukrainians Rights
Several Ukrainian websites who publish in Russian ( 112.ua, Ukrainskiye novosti, MIGnews) simultaneously published identical stories about German Bundestag member Inge Höger from the...
Exploitation of weaknesses: pro-Kremlin propaganda in Central-Eastern Europe
The West is an Easy Target for Kremlin’s Disinformation, Ivana Smolenova wrote for Intersection.
From those who seek to control the minds of others, Russia’s...