Mark Galeotti: The West Is Too Paranoid About Russia’s “Infowar”
Never mind the old missile gap, what about the meme gap? There is something of a panic in the West that it is "losing the information war" with Russia.
On one...
Fake: Ukraine Halts Electrical Power to Crimea
On June 30, the Russian Ministry of Energy misleadingly reported on its website that Ukraine was stopping the supply of electricity to Crimea: “On...
Russia 1 Wrongly Reports of Energy Ministry Appointment
On June 30 the site Vesti.ru (Russia 1 TV channel) incorrectly reported that Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko appointed 24-year-old Dmitry Vovk as Ukraine’s Minister of...
Pro-Putin Think Tank Based In New York Shuts Down
A pro-Kremlin think tank based in New York City is shutting down, an official with the group told BuzzFeed News on Tuesday.
“I can confirm...
What happens when a curation site emphasizes fact-checking?
Upworthy defines itself as a curation site for “compelling, meaningful” content — and that content is typically shared widely, often going viral. When Upworthy...
Russian Media Invent “Union of Zakarpattia and Lviv Regions”
The Russian newspaper Vzglyad has published an article entitled “Zakarpattia May Follow Crimea and Donbas” that falsely claims that the Ukrainian regions of Zakarpattya...
Hashtags and User Networks in the Putin-Poroshenko Twitter Chatter
This article is part of a citizen-media data-analysis project, a collaboration between RuNet Echo and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Explore...
Europe Seeks to Counter Kremlin Success Pushing World View
Larry King's back on the air, beaming his high-octane brand of talk to households around the world. Where can you catch him? Kremlin-backed television.
Moscow wants you to pay better...
Russians Turn to Official Media Not for Information but for Reassurance, Yakovenko Says
Many people explain Vladimir Putin’s high approval ratings by pointing to the effectiveness of state propaganda delivered by television; but this is “both true...
How Russian TV changed during Ukraine crisis
Ever since the start of the Ukraine crisis, Russian state TV has been engaged in what it calls an "information war". Most notably, this...