Cheltenham Literature Festival: Inside Putin’s Russia – “state control through lies”
"In chess we have fixed rules and unpredictable results," former world champion and human rights activist Gary Kasparov told Cheltenham Literature Festival. "In (Vladimir)...
Seven strategies of domestic Russian propaganda
An important attribute of Russia’s modern policy has been the growth in military hysteria and the constant need for both internal and external enemies....
60 Years in Journalism: Russia Reverting to Type
A year after President Obama met with Vladimir Putin and described him slouching and "looking like that bored schoolboy in the back of the...
RT Is a Mock-Up of the Real Thing
The popular U.S. publication The Daily Beast ran a major article in mid-September about RT, the Kremlin-sponsored television channel that broadcasts in foreign languages. It turns out that after 10...
Russia’s Propaganda Blitzkrieg
The propaganda war propping up Putin and his cronies has reached new heights with the bombing campaign in Syria.
When Vladimir Putin spoke before the...
Putin TV: Russian Airstrikes Are ‘Sacred’
RT ordinarily hates it when outside countries start attacking the Middle East. Except when those countries include Russia.
Russia Today heard about Vladimir Putin’s new...
Kremlin’s Domestic PR Campaign Is a Sad Farce
Russia's media and political bosses have managed to shift the nation's attention from Ukraine to Syria in the past few weeks. Damascus and Aleppo now fill the air waves in place of Donetsk and Kramatorsk....
Fighting the Information War
Information has always been part of conflict. Thucydides detailed the effects of messages dispatched during the Peloponnesian War, and "narrative" is frequently cited today...
If Putin’s on the Line, Just Hang Up
Why did Sir Elton John, a tireless campaigner for gay rights, put up a picture of the non-gay-friendly president of Russia on Instagram? It...
Russia’s net delusion: How Russian online media distract people from reality
To distract attention from urgent economic problems and the mistakes of Russian authorities, the Russian media are looking for ways to send out alternative messages.
With...