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Russia and the Rocketmen

By Kseniya Kirillova, for CEPA Russian extremist propaganda may reveal more about the regime’s weaknesses than it would wish. Sometimes the audience is more interesting than...

Why Putin’s Russia cannot accept its borders

By Glenn Chafetz, John Sipher, for UkraineAlert To understand Russia’s current obsession with Ukraine, it is important to recognize that Russia was never a state in...

Interview With AI Ethicist Dr. Benjamin Lange

By EUvsDisinfo EUvsDisinfo: You are an ethicist working on AI and disinformation, among other things. What does that mean in practice? What does an ethicist...

Putin’s Credibility Rests on Shaky Ground

By Kseniya Kirillova, for CEPA Vladimir Putin enjoys support across Russia, but his hold over his country isn’t as secure as it might first appear. As...

Propaganda and Repression Turn Against Their Creators in Russia

By Kseniya Kirillova, for Jamestown Foundation Conflicts continue to mount among the various “Kremlin towers,” and lately a curious trend has become discernible: Those methods...

Putin’s Popular Support: A Miasma of Jew Hate and Fatalism

By Kseniya Kirillova, for CEPA After more than 500 days, not a single goal of the “special operation” in Ukraine has been achieved, yet Russians...

Only Russia’s Military Defeat Can Kill the Cult of Putin

By Kseniya Kirillova, for CEPA Despite efforts to portray the Russian president’s confusion and helplessness in the face of the rebels as signs of strength and resilience,...

Russian Think Tanks Enable the Kremlin’s Dangerous Delusions

By Kseniya Kirillova, for Jamestown Foundation When it comes to Russian propaganda, it is important to remember the so-called “analytical centers” that constitute it, including...

Stanisław Żaryn: We must increase defence capabilities!

By Stanisław Żaryn, for StopFake After over one year we can clearly state, that the very picture of the Russian war against Ukraine and its...

Prigozhin’s Mutiny Took Russian Propaganda by Surprise

By Kseniya Kirillova, for Jamestown Foundation While the military uprising carried out by the founder of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, lasted only a day,...