Friday, July 4, 2025

Time to Criminalize Putin’s Lie Machine

By Elisabeth Braw, for CEPA Russian malign influence campaigns and those of other hostile states have tested Western patience for years. Now, some countries may criminalize it. Norway...

Slovak Vote Shows Need for NATO Action on Russian Disinformation

By Kateryna Odarchenko, for CEPA The Slovak election showed Russian interference in Western democracies is ramping up, threatening to sow distrust across Europe. There is an urgent...

Cacophonous Chorus Of Conniving Voices

By EUvsDisinfo Once again, it has been a busy week for the Kremlin’s information manipulation purveyors. From planes crashing in Russia’s backyard to some EU...

The 5×5—Forewarned is forearmed: Cybersecurity policy in 2024

By Nitansha Bansal, Trey Herr, for DFRLab Members of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative team discuss the regulatory requirements and emerging technology they are closely following in...

2nd EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats

By EEAS The 2nd EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) Threats builds on the 1st Report and completes the work towards a common framework for networked defence against...

Time To Take A Step Forward From Analysis To A Collective Response

By EUvsDisinfo The latest EEAS report on FIMI threats reveals how foreign powers are systematically undermining democracies. This is not just an attack on facts,...

How Ukraine fights Russian disinformation: Beehive vs mammoth

by Jakub Kalenský, Roman Osadchuk, for DFRLAb Best practices in countering Russian disinformation, propaganda and information aggression, based on interviews with nearly two dozen Ukrainian practitioners This report...

All roads lead to Poland

By EUvsDisinfo Poland, one of the staunchest supporters of Ukraine, has long been among the favourite targets of pro-Kremlin disinformers and past weeks have been...

Kremlin Creates Illusion of Imaginary Victories While Unable to Solve Real Problems (Part Two)

By Kseniya Kirillova, for Jamestown Foundation Executive Summary: Economic decline and growing security threats limit the effectiveness of Kremlin propagandists’ claims of a “bright future” for...

Kremlin Creates Illusion of Imaginary Victories While Unable to Solve Real Problems (Part One)

By Kseniya Kirillova, for Jamestown Foundation Executive Summary: The recent “almost naked” party of Russian celebrities has led to a new wave of government repression and...