Jens Siegert: On Taboos, Glasnost and Anti-glasnost
Source: Russia Blog (Heinrich Boell Foundation).
The first Russian words I learnt (after ‘da’, ‘net’, ‘na zdorovye’ and ‘Sputnik’) were perestroika and glasnost – ‘restructuring’...
Fake: Bloomberg Announced Giant Deposits Found in Crimea
Russian and Moldovan sites are circulating a fake story which originally appeared last December claiming that a giant gold mine was discovered in Crimea....
Russian Media Distorts Ukrainian Position on the War in Eastern Ukraine
The website Ukraina.ru published an article this week entitled "Kiev promises a quick military victory in the Donbas”. According to the article, Ukrainian Interior...
Debunking Lies and Stopping Fakes: Lessons from the Frontline
For the Kremlin, propaganda has become an integral part of information warfare. Throughout the past decade the Russian propaganda machine has been structured and...
Putin Allying with Europe’s Far Right Not Just to Change European Policies but to...
Most commentators have suggested that Vladimir Putin is supporting the Russian extreme right to force the governments of Germany and other European countries to...
Why Europe Is Right to Fear Putin’s Useful Idiots
The Kremlin’s support for right-wing parties is no game. It’s trying to subvert the European idea, Alina Polyakova wrote for Foreign Policy.
Scholar Scott Radnitz...
What explains the sometimes obsessive anti-Americanism of Russian elites?
Speaking earlier this month at the Munich Security Conference, Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned that his country and the West are headed towards...
Gross incompetence
Besides oil an gas, other major exports for the Kremlin include whataboutism and other logical fallacies. This story, however, concerns domestic consumption of whataboutism....
These Digital Sleuths Are Sticking It to ISIS and the Kremlin
Armchair intelligence analysts are debunking propaganda and uncovering war crimes without ever leaving home, Bryan Schatz wrote for Mother Jones.
It was late 2014. Pro-Moscow...
MH17 – Potential Suspects and Witnesses from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade February...
The report can be downloaded here
This report, MH17: Potential Suspects and Witnesses from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade, presents information regarding the Russian brigade that we...