Context

Russian opposition activists have released a report started by the late Boris Nemtsov detailing Russia's military aggression in Ukraine.

Some pro-Russian videos appear to have gone viral, and not in a good sense. Motherboard reports that a group of unknown hackers has been infecting Internet users’ computers with viruses and using them to inflate views on news videos with a pro-Russian slant, as well as some other content.

Vladimir Putin has signed a law increasing fines on the media for what the authorities choose to view as ‘propaganda of extremism’.

The former boss of the Kremlin’s Washington-based media empire has been sentenced to a year of supervised release for his 2013 tax fraud conviction, in which he admitted to cooking the books at RT America by filing over $1 million in phony tax deductions.

Across the world, this week’s unrest in Baltimore after the death of a young African American following being taken into police custody is being used by America’s adversaries in a global wave of online propaganda and criticism, much of it designed to embarrass the U.S., analysts say.

In mid-April a group of pro-Russian hackers distributed an article about the arrival of US military experts who were allegedly to take part in the provocations on the territory of Ukraine, told ATO spokesman…

Despite sanctions, a plummeting economy, and isolation from the world as a result of its actions in Ukraine, a wave of patriotic fervor is spreading across Russia.

The new website will feature a wide range of perspectives on key international events. Sputnik multimedia news agency announces the launch of a news portal in Danish at dk.sputniknews.com.

The Sputnik multimedia news agency has announced the launch of its Norwegian language web site. The new media resource, no.sputniknews.com, offers diverse perspectives on major international topics.

The EU foreign service is recruiting a handful of new experts to help counter Russia’s anti-Western propaganda.