Malaysia airlines flight MH17 crash illustrates different realities in Russia vs. West
For the West, the downing one year ago of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 underlined the brutality of Moscow’s hybrid intervention in eastern Ukraine. In...
New paper: The Pro-Russian Disinformation Campaign in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Both countries, with relatively small Russian minorities and only a handful of Russian-language media outlets, have been recently awakened by a new phenomenon –...
Russia’s RT Spins And Spins Over New MH17 Footage
Кussia's Kremlin-controlled RT has heavily spun* previously unreleased footage of the MH17 crash site that is consistent with indications that the Malaysian airliner was...
OSCE Does Not Confirm Withdrawal of Weapon by Militants
A special monitoring mission by the OSCE could not confirm the withdrawal of heavy weapons below 100mm caliber by illegal military groups in eastern...
We’re all Putin’s ‘useful idiots’
Watching Russian TV recently is a disturbing business. As Stephen Ennis at BBC Monitoring has painstakingly recorded, Russian media has developed a habit of...
Dutch-Polish ‘content factory’ to counter Russian propaganda
The Netherlands and Poland are to launch a Russian-language news agency in order to counter Russian propaganda.
Bert Koenders, the Dutch foreign minister, told press...
West should launch counterattack in war with Russia
Russian propaganda influences not only Russia's neighbours but also the European Union, writes Grigory Mesezhnikov, the director of the Slovakia-based Institute for Public Affairs,...
“Separatism” in Lviv – For Money and Russian Propaganda
Western leaders putting pressure on Ukraine to accede to Russian demands and offer the so-called ‘Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics’ autonomy would be well-advised...
Russian censor takes aim against Novaya Gazeta
Russia’s Roskomnadzor has issued the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta with a warning over bad language cited in a literary text. As the second warning...
An Open Letter to Russia’s Silent National TV Networks
Almost two dozen Russian soldiers died on July 13, when part of a military barracks in suddenly collapsed. The men who perished in the...