Kremlin Watch Monitor. February 9, 2017
New Publications
The Visegrad Insight published an article written by our Jakub Janda. He explains the threat Russia constitutes for the states of the Visegrad...
Twitter rolls out three new ways to fight abuse
Twitter has long been criticized for how it handles abuse and trolls on its platform, and on Tuesday the company unveiled its latest attempt...
Trump Overtakes Putin as Russia’s Most Discussed Celebrity
U.S. President Donald Trump has beaten Russian leader Vladimir Putin to became Russia's most-talked about public figure.
According to data from media analytics company SCAN, Trump...
Six Outrageous Lies Russian Disinformation Peddled about Europe in 2016
By Jakub Janda and Ilyas Sharibzhanov, Atlantic Council
Russian disinformation is working overtime to undermine European democracies. Much of the disinformation in 2016 came from...
Opening Cyber Salvo in the French Elections
This is gonna be a very interesting cyber conflict
On Feb 1st, 2017, Wikileaks began tweeting about the candidates in the French election coming up in...
‘Ukrainian regional news site’ linked with Putin Chef’s Internet troll factory
An apparently ‘Ukrainian’ website often quoted in the Russian media has a St. Petersburg address and is probably one of the ‘troll factory’ enterprises...
U.S. Preps for Infowar on Russia
While President Trump is still defending Vladimir Putin in public, American policymakers have finally awoken to Russian intervention in the U.S. democratic process —...
Fake news for liberals: misinformation starts to lean left under Trump
The president’s tumultuous first weeks in office could influence uptick in viral sharing of misleading articles and propaganda that stoke progressive anxieties
While stories of...
Human Shields in Donetsk: Launching Grads near a Residential Area
By Bellingcat
This report was written in collaboration with the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT).
On 31 January 2017, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine recorded...
We are not paid agents of Russia, we do it out of conviction
We have found a Jobbik activist, a young communist, a Russian convicted of vandalism and a neo-Nazi among the anonymous editors of one of...