Stereotypes paralyze Russia’s potential for change
The Russian opposition and Western analysts have pointed out repeatedly that Russia’s authorities are actually a “Chekist clan” – former KGB officers who obtained...
Information Warfare: Europe’s Time to Change the Narrative
Vladimir Putin receives a lot of sympathy in Europe. And not just from Russian speakers, but also from nationalists of all stripes who see...
An hour-by-hour look at how a conspiracy theory becomes ‘truth’ on Facebook
Conspiracy theories, hoaxes and other variants of baloney have become so prevalent and intractable on Facebook that we no longer bother to debunk them....
Writing in the Kremlin’s Shadow
"The problem with “Walter Cronkite and the rest of them,” the American correspondents in Moscow, my grandmother used to tell me, was that all...
Brave New War: a new form of conflict emerged in 2015
From China in Asia to Russia in Europe and the Middle East, and ISIS just about everywhere, 2015 has seen the flourishing of conflicts...
Arkadiy Babchenko: Infantilism as Russia’s Official Ideology
If you asked me to characterise the “Russian World” (Russky mir) in one word, I would not hesitate to call it infantilism. This term...
Major mission creep with Sputnik
This initially started out as a sort of How to Amnesty International for Dummies, but in the course of my research on the topic...
The End Of Russia’s Mass Hallucination
Fresh barbed-wire fencing around the nation's main TV tower isn't exactly a sign of a confident regime, Brian Whitmore writes for RFE/RL.
In addition to reinforcing...
Beril Dedeoğlu: Propaganda wars
Russia, in light of the awareness of media as the strongest tool to affect the world to legitimize oneself while causing wars, reveals supposed...
Media responsibility in the age of terror
Professor Katrin Nyman-Metcalf, and journalists Rita Chinyoka and Nadezhda Azhgikhina discuss feeding terror, hate speech, and the responsibilities of mainstream media, at the World...