New paper: The Pro-Russian Disinformation Campaign in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Both countries, with relatively small Russian minorities and only a handful of Russian-language media outlets, have been recently awakened by a new phenomenon –...
Russia’s RT Spins And Spins Over New MH17 Footage
Кussia's Kremlin-controlled RT has heavily spun* previously unreleased footage of the MH17 crash site that is consistent with indications that the Malaysian airliner was...
OSCE Does Not Confirm Withdrawal of Weapon by Militants
A special monitoring mission by the OSCE could not confirm the withdrawal of heavy weapons below 100mm caliber by illegal military groups in eastern...
Dutch-Polish ‘content factory’ to counter Russian propaganda
The Netherlands and Poland are to launch a Russian-language news agency in order to counter Russian propaganda.
Bert Koenders, the Dutch foreign minister, told press...
Russian censor takes aim against Novaya Gazeta
Russia’s Roskomnadzor has issued the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta with a warning over bad language cited in a literary text. As the second warning...
British Bank Freezes Russian News Agency Rossiya Segodnya’s Account
London-based bank Barclays has frozen the accounts of major state-run Russian news agency Rossiya Segodnya, in a move that may be tied to Britain's sanctions on its firebrand chief,...
Mission Journal: Crimea’s journalists in exile as Russia muzzles free press
"First they asked if my parents had any guns or drugs in the apartment, then they showed my picture to my mother and asked...
Open-Source Information Reveals Pro-Kremlin Web Campaign
In April of this year, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Guardian reported on the website вштабе.рф, a large photo gallery of pro-Russian memes and “demotivator”...
Snyder’s ‘Bloodlands’ released in Russian despite deadlock to publish in Russia
Timothy Snyder’s book about the mass killings of 14 million non-combatants during World War II by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany was released...
Russia Bans Internet Database Archive
Internet users in Russia will no longer be able to access a massive database of cached webpages, apparently due to one single website authorities...