Saturday, May 2, 2026

Putin has two reasons for playing ‘the Jewish card,’ Yakovenko says

By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia In the film World Order 2018 and indeed in all his propaganda over the last 18 years, Vladimir Putin...

RT’s Top Editor Toasts Putin: ‘He Used To Be Our President; Now He Is...

By RFE/RL There was plenty of Champagne and wine flowing in Moscow in the hours after Russia’s polls closed on March 18, as supporters of...

Democratic Defense Against Disinformation

By Daniel Fried and Alina Polyakova, for Atlantic Counsil Read the Publication (PDF) “The Russians and other purveyors of disinformation will constantly improve their tactics; our...

Revisiting Soviet monuments

By Urve Eslas, for CEPA Russian President Vladimir Putin has been trolling Estonia. Since CEPA’s last brief on the future of the Soviet war memorial...

Russian Media Changes World Cup Goal Posts

Britain’s Foreign Minister Boris Johnson thinks it would be wrong to punish football teams and fans by boycotting the 2018 FIFA World Cup to...

Fake: OSCE Declares Russian Presidential Elections Open and Fair

Official Russian media presented the official OSCE report on the March 18 Russian presidential elections in a distorted and manipulative manner, omitting many of...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: US and UK strengthen their positions, the EU and the Dutch...

Topics of the Week The European Commission’s high-level group of experts have issued a report on disinformation. It has little significance in practice and completely...

The Daily Vertical: Russia’s real debate (Transcript)

By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL The most interesting thing that happened during yesterday's so-called election was a heated debate between a candidate who received less...

Russian media cite fake election observers

By Polygraph Thierry Mariani French politician “I have worked as an observer of elections for about 20 years and can say that in Russia I see improvements...

Final report of the High level expert group on fake news and online disinformation

By European Commission In January 2018, the European Commission set up a high-level group of experts ("the HLEG") to advise on policy initiatives to counter...