No Arab Spring in Russia, Yet
A lively debate has been under way for several years about the impact of the Internet on political life around the world. Some argue that the web enables opposition movements to get...
The Ukraine Plan
Following is a rough but semantically correct translation of the full text of the “Ukraine Strategy Document”, dated somewhere after February 4th 2014 and...
Why did Facebook block a Russian Propaganda Watchdog?
The near closure of an important Polish initiative countering pro-Russian propaganda this week should serve as a salutary lesson, not least for Facebook, whose...
Fake: Western Media Disclose that American Mercenaries Are Fighting for Ukraine
On February 19, 2015, the “International News Agency Novorossiya” published a report entitled “The West Finally Recognizes that There Are NATO Divisions on the...
Fake: Svoboda Political Party Designs Hitler Banknote
On January 12, 2015, Rossiya 1’s evening news program, Vesti, reported that the Ukrainian political party Svoboda (“freedom”) had proposed a new 1,000-hryvnia banknote...
Fake: Marchers Call Out “Death to Moskals” in Kharkiv
While reporting about a bomb attack in Kharkiv on February 23, 2015, some Russian media (segodnia.ru, riafan.ru) claimed that the bomb had detonated “just...
Detoxing Russia
Long after Boris Nemtsov’s killers are caught and Putin is gone, we’ll still be dealing with the legacy of the current media climate.
As Russia...
The Guardian view on Russian propaganda: the truth is out there
Nietzsche said it first: “There are no facts, only interpretations.” But Vladimir Putin has perfected it into a political strategy. Within hours of opposition...
Russia is now monitoring the world’s mass media for bias
The Russian Institute for Strategic Studies introduced its first-ever World Mass Media Hostility Index, which measures potential anti-Russian bias in the media publications of...
If Moscow TV Said Putin was a Criminal, Russians Would Soon Agree, Panfilov Says
Government-controlled television is such a dominant player in Russian life that if the TV didn’t show Putin for two weeks and in the third...