The U.S. Should Do More to Counter Putin’s Propaganda
Three Russian television stations interviewed Andrei Petkov from a hospital bed in Nikolaev, Ukraine, in April 2014.
Rossia 1 described him, with a bandage on...
Peter Pomerantsev: Beyond Propaganda
How authoritarian regimes are learning to engineer human souls in the age of Facebook.
This essay is adapted from the first in a series of publications by...
Russia’s Ministry Of Mind Reading
It's the urban legend that just won't die.
It is usually raised by Russian officials when they want to back up claims that the United...
The Evolution of Anti-Americanism in Russia
The Levada Center, an independent Moscow-based polling group, has tracked Russian attitudes towards the United States since the early 1990s, with the occasional gaps...
Kremlin’s Top Five ‘Propaganda Myths, Fakes and Stupidities’ for the Past Week
As he does each week, Dmitry Bukovsky of Kyiv’s “Delovaya stolitsa” compiles a list of “the top five propaganda myths, fakes, and stupidities” for...
The Goebbels of the Kremlin
In Soviet Russia, everybody knew that they were being watched. Any deviation from officially sanctioned behavior would be treated with suspicion and most likely...
The tabloid king who shapes how Russians see the world
Aram Gabrelyanov isn't a man to mince words. And what this tabloid king really dislikes are "assholes" and "traitors" who challenge Russian President Vladimir...
Debunking Lies and Stopping Fakes: Lessons from the Frontline
For the Kremlin, propaganda has become an integral part of information warfare. Throughout the past decade the Russian propaganda machine has been structured and...
Weapons of Mass Deception. Part Two
In part one of his essay, prominent Russian media analyst Vasily Gatov explained the origins of Putin’s anti-Western narrative and the current Russian propaganda campaign....
Weapons of Mass Deception. Part One
The overwhelming scale and deeply destructive nature of the Kremlin’s information war has only recently drawn attention of the Western mainstream media and policymakers. In part one...