Beyond censorship: Kremlin using another means to impose ideological control
Preventing the publication of something or suppressing it after it has been published are all too familiar forms of censorship and the imposition of ideological control in Putin’s Russia.
A decade of the Eastern Partnership: A cause for reflection, not for joy
After 10 years of the “Eastern Partnership” what do we have to celebrate? There is modest, homegrown progress in Armenia; Azerbaijan and Belarus are still autocracies; Georgia is going backwards; Moldova is still a basket case.
Zelensky playing on Putin’s fears Ukraine could be an alternative Russia, Kirillova says
Even before his inauguration, incoming Ukrainian president has launched an information war against Moscow, calling on others in the post-Soviet countries to see what is “possible” if one does what Ukraine is…
New polls: good news for Russians and Ukrainians, bad news for Kremlin, Davydov says
Staunton, March 13 – Many people have been struck by new polls showing that Russians have remarkably positive attitudes about Ukrainians and wish to live in peace and harmony with them, results that suggest…
Edward Lucas: Russia’s only ally
Most countries don’t know what goes on in Europe’s last dictatorship. Most don’t care, either. For all but a handful of its western neighbors, Belarus is a geopolitical black hole, neglected and ignored in equal measure.
Jakub Kalensky: If we want to stop the aggression, we have to stop the...
StopFake talked to Jakub Kalensky, head of the anti-disinformation group of the Ukrainian Election Task Force, a co-founder of the East StratCom Task Force, a European Union anti-disinformation project…
Jakub Janda: StopFake set up the agenda of Russian disinformation as a major threat
StopFake talked to Jakub Janda, Head of the Kremlin Watch Program and Director at the European Values Think-Tank, about the current trends of Russian disinformation in Europe, contemporary challenges and the role of governments, journalists, and civil society in denouncing disinformation.
Kseniya Kirillova: The power of disappointment
In the first year of the Russian-Ukrainian war, while trying to understand the origins of the patriotic upsurge that had gripped Russia after its aggression against a neighbouring state, I wrote about the vagueness of moral norms in public consciousness.
“It doesn’t seem like we’re striving to make third-party fact checking more practical for...
Happy anniversary, Facebook: Snopes quit your fact-checking partnership. Poynter’s Daniel Funke reported Friday that Snopes has pulled out of the third-party debunking squad Facebook enlisted in 2016.
Putin’s calendar of subversion
The Kremlin profits from inciting division. Here are their likely targets for 2019. Whether the Kremlin has a special department that guides and coordinates attacks on European states is a matter of conjecture.