Fake Photo Used to Depict Almaty Scuffle
On August 8-9, Ukrainian media used a fake photograph to illustrate a story about a scuffle that allegedly took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
A Facebook...
Russia’s ‘Draconian’ Internet Laws Mostly Ignored By Industry Experts
Russian Internet legislation has been the subject of great concern among free expression advocates, policymakers, and average Internet users. RuNet Echo has reported extensively...
Fake: Maria Gaidar Accuses Saakashvili of Rape
Russian media falsely reported that Odessa Deputy Governor Maria Gaidar had accused Governor Mikheil Saakashvili of rape. The Optimist site, which gave BBC as...
Op-Ed: Voice of America in intellectual twilight zone against Putin
U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) turned its back on famous British-American historian of Soviet crimes Robert Conquest.
The Voice of America, one of America's...
Is Jeremy Corbyn Putin’s latest ‘useful idiot’ in Europe?
As Jeremy Corbyn's lead over his rivals continues to grow in the Labour leadership contest, views he's expressed once of interest chiefly to the...
‘Virtual Civil War’ Going on in Russia Today, Moscow Sociologist Says
Only 25 to 30 percent of Russians actively profession Putin’s national-patriotic ideology, but far fewer, ten to 15 percent are “convinced liberals, Leonty Byzov...
Russia bans Reddit
Reddit, one of the most popular destinations on the Internet, has been added to Russia's list of banned websites. The Federal Drug Control Service...
Putin’s News Network of Lies Is Just the Start
When the Berlin Wall fell, the Western world stopped thinking about how to explain and promote its political system in Russia and around the...
Emergence of a Russian ‘Fifth Column’ and Propaganda Machine Inside Azerbaijan
The recent intensification of high-level exchanges between the governments of Azerbaijan and Russia—most recently exemplified by the visits of the Azerbaijani foreign and defense...
“Patriotic” Russian Media Group Gets the Go-Ahead
The process of creating a "patriotic media group" in Russia is moving forward, with the government having greenlit the acquisition of Russian Media Group...