The ABC of Russia’s foreign news for holiday-makers
By EU vs Disinformation
It’s nearly summer holiday time, and the news cycle is slowing down. But when Russians turn on their TVs at their...
Russian Pokemon go blogger has sentence reduced
A Russian blogger who was sentenced to over three years for filming himself playing Pokemon Go in an Orthodox cathedral has had his sentenced...
Leonid Ragozin, Codastory: Brothers in Arms
Why Russian ultranationalists confronted their own government on the battlefields of Ukraine
Text by Leonid Ragozin, illustrations by Aleksandra Krasutskaya, for CodaStory
On a snowy January day...
What a Khan Sheikhoun False Flag Conspiracy Would Actually Mean
Conspiracy Would Actually Mean
By Eliot Higgins, Bellingcat
Since the chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun on April 4th 2017 multiple attempts have been made to dismiss...
Russian network TV show reportedly uses Twitter bots to fake fawning viewer feedback
By Meduza
The producers of a new daily political talk show on the national TV network Pervyi Kanal have created an army of Twitter bots...
War in Ukraine was years in the making
Ukraine is the only country in the world that has ongoing experience with a hybrid war—a simultaneous and adaptive military strategy that blends conventional...
French court orders journalist to retract the truth about grossly misleading Moreira film on...
By Halya Coynash, Human Rights in Ukraine
Paul Moreira, the author of a French film that falsely calls a tragic fire in Odesa a ‘massacre’...
The worse things become, the more Russians look to the state and to Putin
In most countries when the economic situation deteriorates or the government behaves in ways that fail to help the population out, an increasing number...
Advanced Guide on Verifying Video Content
By Aric Toler, Bellingcat
One of the most common issues for researchers and journalists is verifying user-generated video content, most often found on social networks...
Kremlin pollster says 15 percent of Russians are unpatriotic ‘shit’
By Meduza
Valery Fedorov, the head of the state-owned VTsIOM polling agency, said in a television interview on Thursday that 15 percent of Russians make...