Context

On September 4-5, several news media falsely reported that Swedish authorities would classify as secret any information about alleged war crimes committed by the Ukrainian Army.

The letter has become a news story on Russian television and on CNN iReport. It's written on paper marked “Ministry of Justice Sweden” and is addressed to Oleksiy Pokotylo, “Head Department for National Security and Defense Affairs” in Ukraine.

The ongoing protest in the Moldovan capital Chișinău is posing a fresh test of Russian state-controlled media’s ability to project Kremlin geopolitical preferences.

The Polish foreign ministry will on Thursday (10 September) host a donors' conference in Warsaw for a project aimed at countering Russian propaganda.

Index on Censorship, the European Federation of Journalists and Reporters Without Borders are delighted to announce the expansion and redesign of Mapping Media Freedom, which records threats to journalists across Europe, and which will now also cover Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

When you build out a network based on the Russian Embassy in Ottawa, the first thing you notice are the non-Canadian trolls most closely associated with the RU Embassy in London.

The Russian request to Bulgaria for an overflight of "humanitarian aid" planes en route to Syria was part of a propaganda war the country is waging, a former Foreign Minister has said.

Russian Investigative Committee claims that Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk once fought against Russia in Chechnya aroused hilarity and some excellent flights of Photoshop fantasy following publication of an interview with the head of the Committee, Alexander Bastrykin.

With one hand, Kremlin strangles non-governmental organizations in Russia. With another, it generously supports the defenders of its interests in the Baltics.

The newspaper Kommersant has deleted from its website a series of quotes from the transcript of an interview with opposition leader Alexey Navalny.