Russia fighting information wars with borrowed weapons
“Life would be boring without rumors. So said Russian President Vladimir Putin, upon re-emerging from a mysterious ten-day disappearance, during which the internet exploded with speculation he was dead.
Putin Winning by Exploitation of West’s Greatest Strength
Vladimir Putin’s success in exploiting Western weaknesses — divisions between those who lived under Soviet occupation and those who didn’t and between Europe as a whole as the United States and the…
No Arab Spring in Russia, Yet
A lively debate has been under way for several years about the impact of the Internet on political life around the world.
Detoxing Russia
Long after Boris Nemtsov’s killers are caught and Putin is gone, we’ll still be dealing with the legacy of the current media climate.
The Guardian view on Russian propaganda: the truth is out there
Nietzsche said it first: “There are no facts, only interpretations. But Vladimir Putin has perfected it into a political strategy.
If Moscow TV Said Putin was a Criminal, Russians Would Soon Agree, Panfilov Says
Government-controlled television is such a dominant player in Russian life that if the TV didn’t show Putin for two weeks and in the third said he is a criminal who had unleashed war, the Russian people would…
The West Is Ignoring Some Unpleasant Truths About Putin
At the beginning of the Ukraine crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is said to have told U.S. President Barack Obama that Russian President Vladimir Putin was "in another world.
‘Out of My Mouth Comes Unimpeachable Manly Truth’
What he learned from watching a week of Russian TV, Gary Shteyngart wrote for The New York Times: On a cold, sunny New Year’s Eve in 2014, I am sitting at the edge of my king-size bed at the Four Seasons hotel…
Twitter Chatter About Putin and Poroshenko: The Language Breakdown
This article is part of a citizen-media data-analysis project, a collaboration between RuNet Echo and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.
Ukraine’s Lonely Cyberwarrior vs. Russia
He hacks Russian ministries and CCTV cameras in rebel areas, but Eugene Dokunin and his team are up against a horde of Russian trolls.