How to Justify Crimes Against Humanity: the Kremlin Method
By EUvsDisinfo
IN SHORT:
Moscow denies its documented attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure
Pro-Kremlin commentators deny proven war crimes against civilians
The “Nazi Ukraine” narrative is used once...
Russia banned Armenian tomatoes. A fake Politico story blamed Europe
A fabricated claim reached eighteen languages in 29 hours, pushed by coordinated actors.
BGivi Gigitashvili, Sopo Gelava and Ani Grigoryan, for DFRLAb
As Armenian farmers protested...
Bucha Denial at UNGA and Nazi Narratives Justifying Strikes on Ukraine
By EUvsDisinfo
IN SHORT:
Russia uses UNGA to demand “proper investigation” into its well-documented war crimes in Bucha
Ukrainian officials accused of child trafficking while Russian officials...
Storm-1516 operation targets the Baltic states
By Nika Aleksejeva, for DFRLab
Operation publicly attributed to Russia’s military intelligence attempts to undermine international trust in the Baltic states’ ability to defend itself...
Russia’s Baltic Escalation Playbook: Fear Is Part of the Strategy
By EUvsDisinfo
Russia is promoting a picture of the Baltic region in which NATO is preparing to attack Russia, Baltic governments are heavily militarising, and...
Moscow Cries Fraud Abroad While Fixing the Vote at Home
By EUvsDisinfo
Moscow routinely portrays elections in democratic countries as fraudulent and controlled from abroad. Yet Russia’s own parliamentary election offers no genuine political choice:...
How Russian content sought to influence Armenia’s electoral information space
By Sopo Gelava, Givi Gigitashvili, Andra-Lucia Martinescu, Marius Dima, Nicolae Tibrigan, Lusine Voskanyan, Yuliia Dukach, for DFRLAb
Ahead of Armenia’s parliamentary elections on June 7, Armenian...
From Denial to Exploitation: How the Kremlin Has Adapted Its Climate Disinformation
By EUvsDisinfo
In the latest wave of climate-related narratives spread by the Kremlin, climate change is a vehicle to reinforce familiar disinformation tropes: the alleged...
From Social Media to the Front Line: Russia’s Foreign Recruitment Pipeline
By EUvsDisinfo
This report traces how Russia sustains its war in Ukraine by recruiting foreign nationals, many of them deceived or coerced, through a global...
Welcome, Péter Magyar: Hungary’s new leader joins Zelensky as a target of disinformation in...
Grok's automatic translation in X expands the reach of disinformation
Introduction and Key Findings
This report compiles the results of monitoring conducted between April 1 and...