A new Russian movie set in Crimea during the 2014 annexation enjoys another round...
By Meduza
On September 28, Russian movie theaters started showing Alexey Pimanov’s new film “Crimea,” whose viewer rating on Kinopoisk (Russia’s version of IMDB) hackers recently tried to inflate....
The Kremlin’s Internet Master Bears Down
A previously obscure Russian oversight body has been turned into the government’s chief cyberspace censor
By Daria Litvinova, for Codastory
It was impossible for the Russian...
How Russian news networks are using Catalonia to destabilize Europe
Media stories in English, Russian and German equating crisis in Spain with conflicts in Crimea and Kurdistan
By David Alandete, Madris, for El Pais
In...
How Russia and WikiLeaks Became Allies Against the West
Some claim WikiLeaks is working for the Kremlin. The reality is hardly so simple
By Matthew Kupfer, for The Moscow Times
The timing couldn’t have been better...
Kosovo: Fake news in a struggling democracy
By Orjela Stafasani, for Eurozine
In Kosovo, political corruption, a weak cultural sector and the absence of regulatory bodies allow fake news to thrive, particularly...
Why Trump’s UN Speech Was Gold for Russia’s Top Propagandist
By EU vs Disinfo
Below you find a summary of the main topics on Russia’s most watched TV news channels this week.
The news...
On Telegram, Russian Politics and Memes Translate Into Big Bucks
By Fabrice Deprez, for Global Voices
With more than 90,000 subscribers, the Telegram channel “MDK” is not just one of the most popular one-stop shops...
Political censorship in Russian comedy shows
By EU vs Disinfo
Satire and comedy are universal ways of overcoming tensions in any society. Kings and queens have always had to live with...
The election was rigged, the news is fake, and the deep state is out...
Or, How conspiracy theories are (still) for losers!
Conspiracy theories are all about power – who has it and what they are doing with it,...
No chance for fake news
What we might have come to understand after this german election
By Jutta Kramm, for Correctiv
For four weeks a group of “fact checkers”, put together by...