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Michael Millerman: Russia has renewed its propaganda war by attacking liberal democratic values

Since the Ukrainian crisis began, relations between Russia and the West have deteriorated rapidly to lows not seen since the Cold War. From speeches...

The Many Minutes Hate

Russian propaganda, which has reached an unprecedented scale, is readily compared to its Soviet ancestor. Indeed, the similarity of maneuvers often reaches the absurd...

How the West (unwittingly) aids Russian propaganda

It’s disappointing when Western news media promulgate Russian polls touting the unbelievably high popularity of President Putin as if it was a true reflection...

Debunking the fake article on 2000 Russian soldiers killed in Donbas everyone fell for

Several days ago WarInUkraine team saw the following text on a website bs-life.ru: The article talks of a Russian Government decree to compensate the families...

Dmitry Glukhovsky: Everything Is Possible

Rustem Adagamov tweeted this post by Dmitry Glukhovsky earlier today and it’s worth taking note of. Глуховский о том, как путинская пропаганда смогла оболванить русских...

Putin’s Magnificent Messaging Machine

By pretending to be real news, RT is much better than your grandfather’s Soviet propaganda. In trying to create a likeness of Soviet power, Vladimir...

Truth Out of Fashion

My copy of “Harvest of Sorrow”, inscribed with some kind remarks by the author, is one of my most treasured possessions. Robert Conquest, who...

Doves on Ukraine, From Right and Left

It's unusual to see a longtime Republican agree with a near-Communist about any issue. Yet Henry Kissinger and Jeremy Corbyn, the leading candidate to...

Edward Lucas: Russia Has Published Books I Didn’t Write!

A dodgy imprint has compiled old material by several U.S. and British analysts, without their permission. The aim is pro-Putin spin. A new foreign-language edition...

The Soviet Playbook in Ukraine

It appears that Russian President Vladimir Putin is losing the war in Ukraine. Gone are the talks about seizing so-called Novorossiya — the strip...