Putin’s propaganda is rooted in Russian history – and that’s why it works
By Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Evgeniya Pyatovskaya, for The Conversation
Russia’s war against Ukraine is pressing into its fifth month – despite several rounds of failed peace...
Putin’s poisonous anti-Western ideology relies heavily on projection
By Allan Mustard, for UkraineAlert
For the past century at least, the Kremlin leadership has failed to understand the West. Though it has at times...
Kseniya Kirillova: A Prolonged War in Ukraine Is Advantageous to Russia
By Kseniya Kirillova, for Jamestown Foundation
On June 18, Lithuania blocked the transit by rail of sanctioned goods between Kaliningrad Oblast and the rest of...
Goodwill gestures and de-Nazification: Decoding Putin’s Ukraine War lexicon
By Peter Dickinson, for UkraineAlert
Ever since Russian troops first crossed the Ukrainian border on February 24, the Kremlin has employed characteristically euphemistic language in...
Why Russia demonizes Ukrainian diasporas
By Vic Satzewich, Ivan Kozachenko, for The Conversation
We’re now almost into the fifth month of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and one of the...
Four ways you can design social media posts to combat health misinformation
By Anna Feigenbaum, Ozlem Demirkol Tonnesen, for The Conversation
It’s no secret that online misinformation has been a big problem throughout the pandemic. Of course,...
Regulating online hate will have unintended, but predictable, consequences
By Garth Davies, Sarah Negrin, for The Conversation
The Canadian government is currently holding consultations on a new online hate bill. This bill would update Bill C-36, which...
‘Comrade Hitler’ and Other Russian Fantasies
By Sergej Sumlenny, for CEPA
For over a decade, Russian society has been bombarded with hardcore, revanchist propaganda. The West did not take note.
A typical...
Ben Dubow: The Textbook War
By Ben Dubow, for CEPA
Indiscriminate shelling has destroyed Ukraine’s physical infrastructure, but Russian operations also focus on a less visible target: history textbooks.
Occupation forces...
Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine invasion is the world’s first full-scale cyberwar
By Yurii Shchyhol, for UkraineAlert
Ever since the dawn of the Internet Age, the potential to weaponize digital technologies as tools of international aggression has been...