TASS Mangles U.S. State Department Statement
On May 29, the Russian news agency TASS published a false report with the heading “The USA Has No Confirmations that Russia Moves Troops...
Russia Steps Up Propaganda Push With Online ‘Kremlin Trolls’
Deep inside a four-story marble building in St. Petersburg, hundreds of workers tap away at computers on the front lines of an information war,...
Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin’s War in Ukraine
Russia is at war with Ukraine. Russian citizens and soldiers are fighting and dying in a war of their government's own making. Russian President...
Armed With Google and YouTube, Analysts Gauge Russia’s Presence in Ukraine
An unusual investigation using publicly available videos, smartphone photographs and satellite images shows that Russia is continuing to defy the West by conducting protracted...
Did Russia Just Effectively Outlaw Internet Anonymizers?
A Russian court has ruled to block part of the website of RosKomSvoboda, a Russian Internet freedom and human rights organization, on the grounds...
Russian Media Misinform about Cancellation of Meeting between Ukrainian and Polish Presidents
On May 27, RIA Novosti, Russia Today, Zvezda and other Russian media falsely reported that a meeting between the newly-elected Polish President Andrzej Duda...
Dying in Secret: The Ethics of Investigating Russia’s Ukraine Casualties
Russian opposition blogger Ruslan Leviev and his small team of investigators have released a new investigation into the deaths of three Russian soldiers who...
Fake: Russinians Demand Autonomy
The Podrobnosti site has falsely reported that Carpatho-Russinians held a meeting on May 22 in Kiev. It ran with the headline “Carpatho-Russinians Require from...
Fake: Poroshenko Allows Ukrainians to Bear Arms
The television network Zvezda created a false story by taking an interview with Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin, out of context. It reported that...
The Putin paradox: distrusted, feared, and yet revered
The recent failure of opinion polls ahead of the British elections has sparked much soul-searching in Westminster circles. Pollsters, we are told, have eroded...