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Ever since the start of the Ukraine crisis, Russian state TV has been engaged in what it calls an "information war".

"This week I bring you @RussiaInsider and the top three #KremlinTrolls (@MarcelSardo, @mkj1951, and @Malinka1102), writes Andrew Aaron Weisburd on the website Kremlin trolls.

The aspects of Russia’s hybrid warfare run wide. From trolls and bots online, to the propaganda-cum-media outlets of RT and Sputnik, to its myriad connections to fringe activists and conspiratorial cranks…

The Kremlin’s propaganda machine has been disrupting public discourse in the European Union not only through media outlets like RT and Sputnik, but also by luring European journalists, analysts, and even popular actors to support Russia’s stance.

Spiegel Online Moscow correspondent Benjamin Bidder reflects on the journalistic challenges presented by infowar raging over Ukraine.

Kremlin media are shaping the views of a sizeable pro-Russia constituency in the EU, experts and officials warn.

Three Russian television stations interviewed Andrei Petkov from a hospital bed in Nikolaev, Ukraine, in April 2014.

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 the Legatum Institute’s Transitions Forum on the politics of information in the 21st century.

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 States is bent on destroying Russia. Everybody states it as fact.

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 in the first few years.