Russian radicals turn Trump into a hero of the “Holy War”
By Kseniya Kirillova, for Byline Times
Kseniya Kirillova explores how the more extreme Coronavirus conspiracy theories emanating from Russia are created for export to US...
Kremlin creating a syncretic religion combining state-controlled Orthodoxy and a neo-pagan Victory cult, Eidman...
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
The appalling revelation that the faces of Vladimir Putin, Sergey Shoygu, Joseph Stalin, and Putin’s “little green men” of...
The desanctification of Putin
By Brian Whitmore, for CEPA
The Political Costs of COVID-19 Are Beginning to Mount
After weeks of indecision, the Kremlin bowed to reality last week and...
Afraid of the known Russians now see Putin as a threat not a saviour
By Kseniya Kirillova, for Byline Times
Against the backdrop of the Coronavirus pandemic, Russian President Vladimir Putin cancelled a largely symbolic nationwide referendum on his...
Linking to older stories is usually noble, but for coronavirus, it can be a...
“Through today’s lens, many U.S. coronavirus news stories from January and February seem breezy and untroubled…Many of these stories continue to circulate on social...
‘Liberal Swine’: How the Kremlin exploits the pandemic for propaganda
By Ksenita Kirillova, for Byline Times
Kseniya Kirillova exposes the attempts to discredit the West, undermine Ukraine, and persecute dissidents in the current Russian disinformation...
Fighting infection and malign influence: The Baltic response to the COVID-19 crisis
By Réka Szemerkényi, for CEPA
Past week’s CEPA webinar with the Baltic ambassadors to the United States highlighted the wider impact of the coronavirus pandemic...
The news media sounded the alarm on coronavirus for months — but few listened....
“It’s clear that the public’s lack of trust in journalism generally mirrors the public’s lack of trust in coronavirus journalism specifically.”...
All’s fair in love and war: Democracy in a state of emergency
By Corina Rebegea, for CEPA
In
the fight with the global COVID-19 crisis, many leaders are adopting a
wartime discourse. The measures imposed—lockdowns,...
Moscow’s territorial virus: Countering the Kremlin’s incapacitation of Ukraine
By Janusz Bugajski, for CEPA
The recent announcement in Kyiv by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Chief of Staff that the government is willing to...