Monday, August 18, 2025

Russian ambassador called on the carpet

Czech foreign affairs minister summons H.E. Sergei Kiselev to explain blacklist, controversial 1968 documentary Czech Foreign Affairs Minister Lubomír Zaorálek has summoned Russian Ambassador Sergei...

The Agency

From a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid “trolls” has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet —...

How a NY Car Insurance Salesman Became a Geopolitical Expert for Kremlin Media

Introducing  Eric Draitser, he’s a Brooklyn College graduate, lives in New York. His LinkedIn profile says he is a car insurance salesman. Mr. Draitser...

Fake: Mikheil Saakashvili to Fire Officials to Spare 4 Million Hryvnias to Move Family...

The Twitter page @saakashvily, allegedly belonging to the former Georgian president and newly-appointed head of the Odesa State Administration, Mikheil Saakashvili, has turned out...

Fake: Songs of Utyosov and Dunayevsky Are Forbidden at Odesa Railway Station

On May 29, the Russian television channel Zvezda falsely reported that songs of Soviet composers Leonid Utyosov and Isaak Dunayevsky, which have traditionally greeted...

TASS Mangles U.S. State Department Statement

On May 29, the Russian news agency TASS published a false report with the heading “The USA Has No Confirmations that Russia Moves Troops...

Russia Steps Up Propaganda Push With Online ‘Kremlin Trolls’

Deep inside a four-story marble building in St. Petersburg, hundreds of workers tap away at computers on the front lines of an information war,...

Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin’s War in Ukraine

Russia is at war with Ukraine. Russian citizens and soldiers are fighting and dying in a war of their government's own making. Russian President...

Armed With Google and YouTube, Analysts Gauge Russia’s Presence in Ukraine

An unusual investigation using publicly available videos, smartphone photographs and satellite images shows that Russia is continuing to defy the West by conducting protracted...

Did Russia Just Effectively Outlaw Internet Anonymizers?

A Russian court has ruled to block part of the website of RosKomSvoboda, a Russian Internet freedom and human rights organization, on the grounds...