Last week on Russia’s TV: What harassment scandals “have in common” with Soviet repressions?
By EU vs Disinfo
Is the complainant always right? TV channel Rossiya 1 laughs at the allegations of sexual harassment in the US.
1. Catalonia through...
Top Russian Lawmaker Denies Communist Regimes Killed 100 Million People
By Polygraph
Alexey Pushkov
chairman of the commission on information policy of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of Russia’s parliament
“100 million killed by communist regimes...
Russia Threatens To ‘Retaliate’ As RT Says It Will Register As Foreign Agent In...
By RFE/RL
Russian officials say Moscow will adopt new legislation targeting U.S. media in the country as soon as next week.
State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin...
Bots create one third of Russian-language tweets about NATO presence in Eastern Europe
By The Baltic Times
Two in three Twitter users who write in Russia about the NATO presence in Eastern Europe are robotic or ‘bot’ accounts,...
The parade of lies: the power of fake proofs
By EU vs Disinfo
When the aim is to discredit the opponent as a hypocritical liar, the denigrator faces a problem: where to get the...
Security Experts Chide West On ‘Limited, Weak’ Response To Russia
By Rikard Jozwiak, for RFE/RL
A group of security and foreign-policy experts says Western governments have been "limited and weak" in their response to the...
How One Verification Team Worked to Debunk Misleading Information About the Japanese Election
By Nevin Thompson, for Global Voices
On Sunday, October 22, Japan went to the polls and re-elected the government of Abe Shinzo. The snap election, called...
Kremlin Watch Briefing: Were Russian social media ads really pro-Trump?
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In their most recent article, Franklin D. Kramer of the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security and Lauren M. Speranza of...
Putin’s Russification Program Far More Radical and Dangerous than It Originally Appeared
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
The conclusion of the Tatarstan procuracy that Russian language study is compulsory but non-Russian language study must be voluntary...
The Kremlin’s 1917 Revolution Problem
By Amie Ferris-Rotman, CodaStory
The 100th anniversary of the October Revolution brings difficult memories for modern-day Russia
The diorama showing how Ulyanovsk looked when Vladimir Lenin...