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The Kremlin’s English-language outlets are at it again: Just months after lobbying for Jeremy Corbyn’s election as leader of the UK opposition, they are now backing the campaign to take the UK out of the European Union.

As Washington cuts back efforts to counter Russian propaganda, the Kremlin is hiring American communications talent straight from the Pentagon, Michael Waller wrote for AMINewswire.

This post originally appeared in Russian in the blog “Noodle Remover”. The following is an abridged translation of that post.On February 11, during a Russian Ministry of Defense briefing, Major General Igor…

Russia can be a murderously difficult place to do independent journalism; the killing of reporter and activist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006 ought to have made that manifestly clear.

A survey conducted by Caucasus Research Resource Centre (CRRC) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in August 2015 showed that a 44 per cent of Georgians believe Russia’s influence in the country has increased since 2012.

Russian President Vladimir Putin likes to cultivate the image of a tough national leader and macho man. It is an image that has left little room for Mr Putin the family man.

I have read reports claiming that Russian propaganda has been developed based on some super-scientific principles developed in secret FSB (Federal Security Service) psychology labs, which are guaranteed to sway any human brain in a desired direction, Alexei Bayer wrote for Kyiv Post.

The brief disappearance of a girl in Germany recently become an international political issue. Russia is exploiting the case for propaganda purposes as part of its strategy of a hybrid war aimed at destabilizing the West and dividing Europe, Spiegel writes.

Over the past few years, Germany's relationship with Russia has repeatedly proven important for the West. Yet a mysterious disappearance and rumors of a horrific crime has cast that relationship in a difficult…

A Moscow court on Jan 27 extended for a further 3 months the house arrest imposed on Natalya Sharina, Director of the Ukrainian Literature Library in Moscow.