Crimean Journalist’s Trial Resumes, Adjourned Until June 14
By RFE/RL
The trial of RFE/RL contributor Mykola Semena, a Crimean journalist who is fighting what he says is a politically motivated separatism charge on...
Moscow TV Round-Up: Literature, Justice and the Third Reich
By Mark H. Teeter, for The Moscow Times
It’s "strange bedfellows week" on Moscow television, as the small screen offers its audience great literature (live!),...
Digital Guerrillas Bring Down Russian State Censor’s Website
When access to the messaging app Telegram was interrupted in Russia on June 3, for the second time in less than a week, some worried that...
How a social media joke became anti-NATO propaganda in Estonia
By Urve Eslas, for CEPA
A Russian propaganda website has turned a local joke about the Estonian-Russian border fence into an anti-NATO narrative directed at...
Talking Heads: How Russia’s Videobloggers are Shaping Public Opinion
As Russians turn from their televisions in favour of YouTube, the Kremlin is struggling to find a primetime slot.
By Ola Cichowlas, for The Moscow...
Crimean Tatar activist prosecuted for Facebook birthday greeting to Mustafa Dzhemilev
By Halya Coynash, Human Rights in Ukraine
Rustem Mennanov has become the latest Crimean Tatar to be fined or jailed for innocuous social network posts. ...
Pre-MH17 Photograph of Buk 332 Discovered
By Bellingcat
Since the July 17, 2014 downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 (MH17), Bellingcat has published numerous articles concerning the anti-aircraft missile launcher that...
In Germany, a Battle Against Fake News Stumbles into Legal Controversy
By Josie Le Blond, CodaStory
Some in Germany want social networks to decide what news is fake or ever illegal. It may not be so...
It’s too early to declare Facebook’s anti-fake news efforts a failure
By Laura Hazard Owen, NiemanLab
Plus: A new report on the many types of trolls, and what happens when fact and fiction get blended together.
The...
RT Editor-in-Chief Responds to Macron ‘Propaganda’ Accusations
Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Russian state news organization RT, has responded to accusations that RT is a source of anti-Western propaganda.
French President Emmanuel Macron...