‘Russian world’ should be understood as ‘infectious psychiatric disorder,’ Altufyev says
The Russian world has been defined and approached from many different directions, with some arguing that it includes all those who speak Russian and thus share in a common culture and others that it is a modified version of Sovietism with a set of quite specific ideological features.
Geneva Overholser: Death to bothsidesism
“In day-to-day political reporting, the Times is hopelessly stuck in the past. Its proud allegiance to presenting ‘both sides’ in a time of political breakdown renders it a handmaiden to the degradation of truth.
The distorting mirror – A conversation between Igor Pomerantsev and Peter Pomerantsev
unconscious, source of all that the West finds abject and unsettling? There is something to be said for this theory, says Peter Pomerantsev in conversation with his father Igor, the émigré dissident and poet.
Don’t forget the offline influence world
Most disinformation research activities focus on the digital space. For understandable reasons, shares and retweets can be measured more easily than the spread of information in the analog, printed, or offline world.
Kremlin presents Russia ‘an island of stability’ in a turbulent world to warn Russians...
Putin’s press spokesman Dmitry Peskov has reviewed an image of Russia widespread in 2008 but more recently in disuse, of Russia as “an island of stability” in an increasingly turbulent world, Mikhail Shevchuk…
NATO’s East flank: conflict scenarios
At NATO’s London Summit on 3-4 December 2019, Alliance leaders will refocus their attention on the Black Sea. This will provide a valuable opportunity to assess the dangers facing the Alliance’s most…
Moscow’s man in Belgrade
Will a recent spy bust cause Serbia to reconsider its relationship with Russia? Imagine you are the leader of a country that has caught a Russian spy.
“Propaganda Must be Opposed by the Language of Values”
Andrei Arkhangelsky is a Russian journalist, columnist, author and the cultural editor of the weekly magazine Ogonyok.
What should newsrooms do about deepfakes? These three things, for starters
Headlines from the likes of The New York Times (“Deepfakes Are Coming. We Can No Longer Believe What We See“), The Wall Street Journal (“Deepfake Videos Are Getting Real and That’s a Problem“), and The…
Bolstering electoral cyber resiliense in Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in a hurry to reform the country. Cybersecurity seem to be high on the agenda. And rightly so, as Ukraine is known to be a test-bed for the Kremlin's cyber offense.