Russian Propaganda Edits Out Racist Comment About Obama
By The Moscow Times
State-run Rossiya TV channel has deleted a racist comment about U.S. President Barack Obama from the flagship Sunday news show, Vesti Nedeli, The...
Obama: New media has created a world where “everything is true and nothing is...
By Joseph Lichterman, Nieman Lab
President-elect Donald Trump tweeted Thursday night that he had convinced Ford to not close a factory in Kentucky. “I worked...
A Call for Cooperation Against Fake News
We — John Borthwick and Jeff Jarvis — want to offer constructive suggestions for what the platforms — Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram, Snapchat, WeChat, Apple...
A Revealing Fight with Russia’s RT at the State Department
By Matthew Armstrong, War On The Rocks
In a combative exchange with State Department spokesman John Kirby at a press briefing last week, a representative...
Kremlin Watch Monitor. November 21, 2016
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Kremlin Watch Monitor. November 14, 2016
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How Russian State Media Covers the US Elections: From Bias to Disinformation
By Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, The Interpreter
TV1 announcer says Hillary Clinton has ordered fireworks to celebrate her election win well in advance of election day.
Russian media...
The limits of anti-Americanism in Russia
No matter who wins the White House race, Russia’s anti-Americanism will eventually exhaust itself, Anton Barbashin wrote for Open Democracy.
Not since the Cold War...
Amnesty International: Russia ‘tightening the screws’ on dissenting Crimeans
Two and a half years after Russia annexed Ukrainian Crimea, it gets only scarier and harder for the peninsula’s citizens to voice an opinion...
The Kremlin’s Total Information Warfare with No Moral Boundaries
By Vladimir Sazonov, for Diplomaatia
Moscow is primarily trying to influence politics in Ukraine.
Introduction
This article is the author’s first in a new series on Russia’s...