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...
Edward Lucas: History Matters
By Edward Lucas, for CEPA
But not as much as you think
Are we living in 1914 or 1939? Or 1918? These seemingly abstruse questions are...
Imperial myths and genocidal realities: 100 days of Putin’s Ukraine War
By Nestor Barchuk, for UkraineAlert
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been made possible by one of the most comprehensive disinformation campaigns in world history. For...
Shrinking Russia Seeks China’s Aid
By Kseniya Kirillova, for CEPA
The complications of the Russia-China axis are deeper than they look, and probably involve a future of Kremlin kowtowing.
Russia and...