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Despite putting on a cool and victorious front, all Russian state outlets followed the Munich Security Conference with feverish interest. Could this be the moment when the pressure on Russia starts to ease?

The colder it gets, the more desperate pro-Kremlin disinformation becomes. This winter, the usual scare stories about Europe’s supposed mortal dependence on Russian gas are back, along with new attempts to weaponise climate change.

Russia’s economy is under pressure, but the Kremlin does not want you to know it. Instead, Moscow has launched an all-out campaign of economic war propaganda.

Opinion articles and editorial commentaries on RIA Novosti often border on obvious propaganda. The Russian state-owned news agency uses them to try to convince Russians that countless enemies surround the…

Putin is angling for another high-profile sit-down with Trump, but this time, the location and stakes are different.

Ahead of the German federal elections later this month, pro-Kremlin outlets employ the usual manipulative narratives including tropes like ‘Germany is facing economic and social ruin’, ‘Germans are desperate for change’ and ‘only parties that promise such change will do well’.

As undersea infrastructure in the Baltic gets cut, the Kremlin’s disinformation machine churns out cut-and-paste denials and deflections.

Even before Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he professed that Russia only wanted peace, if only Ukraine and Western countries would give him the peace he wants.

Russia’s obsession with framing Ukraine as a Nazi state serves to justify the ongoing invasion and to distract from Russia’s own historical baggage.

As Germany prepares to head to the polls, pro-Kremlin actors are deploying an arsenal of disinformation tactics to manipulate public opinion and tilt the scales of democracy.