Russian Media Attack Belarus: A Warning For Minsk?
The past few weeks have seen an unusual increase of anti-Belarusian activity in pro-government Russian media and blogs.
The Kremlin has not yet used its...
Russia’s Sub Rosa Statecraft
Spying, mole-planting, subversion, and financial arm-twisting are major components of Moscow’s new hybrid campaign against European democracies.
The arrest of two Russian spies in Poland...
Top 5 Russian fake reports of 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1xCng3CJRs
This year has seen a flurry of false reports and outright lies about the crisis in Ukraine. Most of the stories have originated from...
War by media and the triumph of propaganda
Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice? Why is the BBC so often a mouthpiece of...
Sergey Karaganov: The man behind Putin’s pugnacity
Sergey Karaganov breaks into a broad smile when asked why his two-decades-old ideas about Moscow “protecting” Russian speakers abroad are suddenly the centre of...
Center for Eurasian Strategic Intelligence, a fraudulent “hawkish” think tank
Anton Shekhovtsov's blog:
Readers of this blog may have heard of the Center for Eurasian Strategic Intelligence (CESI) that seems to promote a "hawkish" view...
Russia’s War on Information
Russian President Vladimir Putin has nearly completed his purge of independent news media in Russia. “This is not just a war of information,” says one keen...
The modus operandi of Putin’s Russia
The following text is compiled from excerpts of a speech given by Andrew Wilson at the conference, “Ukraine as a test for European solidarity?”,...
Putin’s Version of the Truth
On the German talk show Günther Jauch about Ukraine and Russia, a German foreign correspondent was allowed to explain why Russia’s annexation of Crimea was really...
Reporting on Russian television
The idea of censorship on Russian television misses the point. When it comes to reporting, loyalty takes precedence.
Since the onset of the Ukraine conflict,...