Massive LiveJournal Troll Network Pushes Pro-Kremlin Narratives
Since spring 2014, thousands of fake LiveJournal blogs have been mass-posting content promoting a pro-Kremlin stance on world events, attacking Western leaders and praising Russian president Vladimir Putin. Using custom...
Putin’s Ukraine Admission and a Culture of Lies
After persistent denials, Russian President Vladimir Putin seemingly admitted to a Russian military presence in Eastern Ukraine (before he didn’t). In any “normal country”,...
Is Pro-Russian Propaganda Fueling Czech and Slovak Paramilitary Groups?
The ability of pro-Russian propaganda to provide ideological grounding for extremist paramilitary groups has been somewhat overlooked. In the last two years, both the...
The “Fall” of Germany or How to Change Reality
On December 19 Komsomolskaya Pravda published a diary of a certain Galina Ivanova, a Russian native from Kazan, who emigrated to Germany, first married...
Ministry of Internal Affairs Denies Deputy Minister was Being Detained
On December 14 Vitaliy Zakharchenko, the former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine informed on his Facebook page that the current Ukrainian Internal Affairs...
‘Britain and Poland will work to fight Russian propaganda’: British PM Cameron
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron has used a trip to Poland to re-affirm the two countries' commitment to "fighting Russian propaganda." That came as...
Western Balkans: EU blindspot on Russian propaganda
The shut-down of Serbia’s Tanjug news agency is helping Russia to promote anti-EU feeling in the Western Balkans.
The agency stopped work at the end...
“Fear peninsula”: How Russia closed down media freedom in Crimea
Mapping Media Freedom correspondent Tetiana Pechonchyk outlines the ways Russia has curtailed press freedom in Crimea
Russia’s takeover of Crimea has been accompanied by an...
Italy Denies Blocking Sanctions against Russia
World media informed that Italy had opposed to extending anti-Russian sanctions by the EU. The first media to report this were news agencies ANSA,...
Dnipropetrovsk Football Club “Dnipro” denied information about the dissolution of the team
Ukrainian media reported on December 9 that the Dnipropetrovsk FC “Dnipro” may be disbanded because its main players are intending to leave.
The football club’s...