Telegraph’s Crimea Travel Piece Full of Errors
On October 1, in its travel section, The Telegraph published an article by British BBC journalist John Simpson entitled “Crimea’s Charms Uncovered.” In the...
Seven strategies of domestic Russian propaganda
An important attribute of Russia’s modern policy has been the growth in military hysteria and the constant need for both internal and external enemies....
Initial Findings of the Crowdsourced Geolocation and Analysis of Russian MoD Airstrike Videos from...
Yesterday Bellingcat launched an effort to use the Checkdesk platform to geolocate and collect additional information on videos posted by the Russia Ministry of Defence...
60 Years in Journalism: Russia Reverting to Type
A year after President Obama met with Vladimir Putin and described him slouching and "looking like that bored schoolboy in the back of the...
Russian Propaganda, Disinformation, and Estonia’s Experience
The international community faces serious challenges arising from a new mode of information warfare, which Russia has deployed during the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in 2014-2015....
RT Is a Mock-Up of the Real Thing
The popular U.S. publication The Daily Beast ran a major article in mid-September about RT, the Kremlin-sponsored television channel that broadcasts in foreign languages. It turns out that after 10...
Russia launches media offensive on Syria bombing
"Russian air force begins bombing terrorist positions in Syria," screams the front of Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda.
Coverage of Russian air strikes in Syria has...
Ukrainians Turning Away From Russian Media In 2015, Survey Finds
Internews’ annual media consumption survey shows a dramatic drop in Ukrainians’ use of Russian media. The survey shows that Russian TV viewership shrank to...
StopFakeNews #54 [ENGLISH] with Jim Kovpak
This week, journalist and blogger Jim Kovpak is the StopFake News guest anchor. Russian and pro-Russian media report that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was...
So this is ‘Putin’s propaganda TV’?
A look at how RT’s chief editor responds to evidence that the network is a political failure
The Kremlin's flagship news network abroad, RT (formerly known...