Context

The Kremlin’s drive to weaponize information for the sake of rallying an already traumatized population behind an unrecognized, unjust war is leaving deep-seated scars that will last long after the dust has settled in East Ukraine.

The BBC has won a case against Russian TV channel RT, which claimed the corporation faked a report on Syria. The station said the BBC had "staged" a chemical weapons attack for a news report, and digitally altered the words spoken by an interviewee.

Russia has been using an advanced form of hybrid warfare in Ukraine since early 2014 that relies heavily on an element of information warfare that the Russians call “reflexive control.

International investigative group Bellingcat published a report on Russian military crossing the Ukrainian border.

The crisis in Ukraine has unleashed what some see as a new bout of information warfare between Russia and the West.

Even as the EU mobilizes to fight Russian propaganda, European governments are fighting each other over the best way to go about it.

Leaked documents from a rival Russian news network show that RT hugely exaggerates its global viewership. Its most-watched segments are on ‘metrosexuals, bums,’ and earthquakes.

Linas Linkevicius, the Foreign Minister of Lithuania, has published an article on euobserver.com concerning Russia’s informational propaganda in Europe and the possible threats.

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The driving force behind the movement is the St. Petersburg branch of the extreme right Rodina (Motherland) and the Russian Imperial Movement.