Immortal Regiment marches are a festival of the grotesque
by Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake
Every year Russian state media boasts about the spread of “Immortal Regiment” marches around the world, in which people...
Kremlin Watch Briefing: Russia not a priority disinformation threat for the European Commission
Topics of the Week
Russia is still not a priority threat for the European Commission when it comes to disinformation campaigns.
In order to maintain a good...
ICYMI and In The Now: The Support Vessels of the RT Flagship
By EU vs Disinfo
RT is the flagship of the Kremlin’s international communications flotilla. Like an aircraft carrier, it is deployed far from Russian speaking...
Cyberattacks in Lithuania: The new normal
By Dalia Bankauskaitė and Simas Čelutka, for Integrity Initiative
On 18 January Lithuania encountered a cyberattack aimed at TV3.lt website, one of the most popular...
Pro-Kremlin Account Presents Ad Campaign as a Real Newspaper Story
By Polygraph
RIA Novosti
Russian state news agency
“The House of Representatives has adopted a law banning the U.S. from aiding Syria”
Source: RIA Novosti
FALSE
H.R. 4681 does not...
A Fake Fact Checker – Again
By EU vs Disinfo
Copycat site to the left, original fact-checking initiative to the right.
Last week, five Swedish publishers started a common fact-checking initiative, with the...
America the Clueless or America the Context-less?: a practical, contextual approach to reporting on...
By Emily Thorson, for Trust, Media & Democracy
“America the clueless,” quipped the headline of an opinion piece by The New York Times’ Frank Bruni in 2013. In the...
Is the Russian embassy in the UK writing letters to itself?
By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake
The Russian embassy in the UK has been publishing a daily selection of “letters of support from ordinary UK...
Disinfo Analysis: 16 million British apologies – trend of the week in Russia’s domestic...
By Polygraph
The website of Russia’s RIA Novosti state news agency has featured a report headlined “The British have apologized to Russia for their insane leaders”...
States within states: how corruption in the Baltic transport sector perpetuates Russia’s economic influence
By Laurynas Keturakis, for Integrity Initiative
Since Russia’s incursion into Ukraine in 2014, the Baltic States have kept an especially watchful eye on the Kremlin....