Opinions

A staple of Vladimir Putin’s propaganda has been that Ukrainians want to wipe out the use of the Russian language and hence of the Russian people in their country and that as a consequence, Moscow in the name of the “Russian world” must intervene in order to prevent that from happening.

“I spent years working for Russian channels. What I saw would terrify the West,” Peter Pomerantsev writes in his recent book about Putin’s Russia, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible.

When a famous hunter Jim Corbett hunted down and shot the man-eating tigress that terrorized India and Nepal for years, killing over 430 people, the entire region let out a collective breath of relief.

The West’s latest round of sanctions against Russia and the fragile truce between Moscow and Kiev fails to alter the fact that the Kremlin has already succeeded in achieving most of its aims in Ukraine.

In the debate over who was responsible for the shooting down of flight MH17 in Ukraine on July 17th two different weapon systems have been linked to the attack.

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 strongest media tools.

Spying, mole-planting, subversion, and financial arm-twisting are major components of Moscow’s new hybrid campaign against European democracies.

This year has seen a flurry of false reports and outright lies about the crisis in Ukraine. Most of the stories have originated from Russian state television.

Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice? Why is the BBC so often a mouthpiece of rapacious power?

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 his country’s foreign policy. “Because almost everything I have said, happened,” Mr.