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How the Kremlin Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Online News Aggregation

With well more than twice as many visitors as Russia’s most popular news websites, Yandex.News, an aggregation service offered by the country’s most popular...

Seven Goals of Russian Domestic Propaganda Have Laid a Trap for the Kremlin, Kirillova...

As a result of its propaganda effort at home, one that has seven main goals, Kseniya Kirillova says, the Kremlin has trapped itself in...

Kremlin’s ‘Top-5 Propaganda Myths, Fakes, and Stupidities’ of the Week

Dmitry Bukovsky of Kyiv’s “Delovaya stolitsa” provides a particularly rich harvest of the Kremlin’s “top propaganda myths, fakes and stupidities” of the last week,...

‘Russian Propaganda Kills,’ Nemtsov’s Daughter Says

The eldest daughter of slain Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov has stepped up her criticism of the Russian state media, drawing a parallel with Nazi...

Want to Get Really Mad About Ukraine? Watch Russian TV

The daily diet of the Kremlin’s ‘weaponized propaganda’ is not all lies — and it’s heating up Russians’ outrage over the war in Ukraine...

The Agency

From a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid “trolls” has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet —...

How a NY Car Insurance Salesman Became a Geopolitical Expert for Kremlin Media

Introducing  Eric Draitser, he’s a Brooklyn College graduate, lives in New York. His LinkedIn profile says he is a car insurance salesman. Mr. Draitser...

Russia Steps Up Propaganda Push With Online ‘Kremlin Trolls’

Deep inside a four-story marble building in St. Petersburg, hundreds of workers tap away at computers on the front lines of an information war,...

Dying in Secret: The Ethics of Investigating Russia’s Ukraine Casualties

Russian opposition blogger Ruslan Leviev and his small team of investigators have released a new investigation into the deaths of three Russian soldiers who...

The Putin paradox: distrusted, feared, and yet revered

The recent failure of opinion polls ahead of the British elections has sparked much soul-searching in Westminster circles. Pollsters, we are told, have eroded...