Friday, August 22, 2025

Kremlin’s Domestic PR Campaign Is a Sad Farce

Russia's media and political bosses have managed to shift the nation's attention from Ukraine to Syria in the past few weeks. Damascus and Aleppo now fill the air waves in place of Donetsk and Kramatorsk....

To combat Kremlin’s message, West gets into Russian broadcasting biz

Jelena Solomina, a petite blond, and Dmitri Pastuhhov, whose wavy mane of hair is pulled back with sunglasses, pace across their unfinished television studio...

Cross-pollination among problematic social networks

Having followed with some interest the work @GCINEWS has been doing to expose the leftwing UK allies of Putin's Russia, I decided to take...

Fighting the Information War

Information has always been part of conflict. Thucydides detailed the effects of messages dispatched during the Peloponnesian War, and "narrative" is frequently cited today...

Faked Fake: Russian Media Report on Football Player Appointed as Ambassador

On September 24, several Ukrainian media falsely reported that Russian television channel Zvezda, famous for its fake news items about Ukraine, had reported that...

Fake: Obama Accuses Ukraine Authorities of Genocide

On September 23, internet media posted false reports claiming that U.S. President Barack Obama had “accused Ukrainian authorities of the genocide of their own...

Kremlin Mouthpiece Sets Up UK Base in Edinburgh

IT is the voice of the Kremlin and it is to bellow from Edinburgh's West End. Sputnik News - a state mouthpiece of Vladimir Putin's...

Activists Leak Russian Government’s Plans to Create a ‘National Internet’

The data-leaking blog Anonymous International, also known as Shaltai-Boltai (Humpty Dumpty), has published the Russian government’s project proposal for creating a "national information platform,"...

Fake: Drunken Poroshenko Removed from Kyiv-Moscow Flight

Russian and pro-Russian media falsely reported on September 24 that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had been intoxicated the previous day when he was not...

Fake: REN-TV Shows U.S. Ambassador at Opposition Rally

On September 20, Russian opposition groups held a rally in the Maryino district of Moscow. The event, however, will most likely be remembered for...