Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Major Cyber Attacks on ‘False Propaganda’ Swedish Media

A series of coordinated cyber attacks knocked Sweden’s main newspapers offline for several hours over the weekend, with early reports suggesting the attacks originated...

Kremlin Propaganda: Soviet Active Measures by Other Means

Upcoming in Estonian Journal of Military Studies, the journal of the Estonian National Defense College (ENDC)  By Yevhen Fedchenko ABSTRACT This article traces the evolution of Russian...

The Baltic Elves Taking on Pro-Russian Trolls

What at first looked like as a social media grudge match could be a precursor to invasion, war and resistance in the Baltics, Michail...

The Norwegian TV series that’s enraged the Kremlin

Okkupert (“Occupied”), the most expensive Norwegian television show in history, never mentions the word “quisling.” And yet its premise — a Russian occupation of...

Finnish journalist Jessikka Aro’s inquiry into Russian trolls stirs up a hornet’s nest

Soon after Jessikka Aro poked the trolls, they started to stir, Nick Miller wrote for Sidney Morning Herald. In one of the early calls, someone phoned...

StopFakeNews #76 with Irena Chalupa

Fulbright scholar Irena Chalupa hosts the latest edition of StopFake News. This week’s fakes include claims that former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is planning...

How to Comb Russia’s TV News

This article is part of a larger guidebook by RuNet Echo to help people learn how to conduct open-source research on the Russian Internet....

By matching Moscow’s paranoia, the west plays into Putin’s hands

The current state of relations between Russia and the west is not a cold war – or at least not the Cold War 2.0....

Kremlin calling? Meet the Russian pranksters who say ‘Elton owes us’

Lexus and Vovan are fast gaining a reputation as the most mischievous men in Russia. The pair of professional prank callers, real names Alexei...

US Senators Call to Counter Russian, Chinese Propaganda

U.S. Senators Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican, and Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, have introduced a bill aimed at countering propaganda from  Russia, China...