Georgia: The next colour revolution?
On 1 August, a contentious law on ”transparency of foreign influence” took effect in Georgia. The law imposes unduly strict controls on...
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ANALYTICS
- Aug 28
Lukashenka’s cemented dictatorship in Belarus: four years since August 2020
Four years have passed since the rigged 9 August 2020 presidential election in Belarus. Ordinary people are labelled traitors and...
- Aug 23
Kremlin information, manipulation, and interference in the Lublin Triangle (Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania) and Moldova
Kremlin efforts to manipulate and interfere with information are an ongoing challenge in the countries of the Lublin Triangle, or L3, a...
- Aug 22
Russia’s Digital Tech Isolationism: Domestic Innovation, Digital Fragmentation, and the Kremlin’s Push to Replace Western Digital Technology
Russia’s technological isolation is both a reality and a desired goal for Moscow. This piece explores the impacts of this phenomenon and...
- Aug 2
OT Cyber Policy: The Titanic or the Iceberg
Current policy does not address the issue of cyber-physical security with a systemic approach, instead focusing with tunnel vision on...
- Jul 30
Shady Horses of Russian Propaganda: Candace Owens: “F**K Ukraine”
Candace Owens is an American political commentator, news anchor, podcast host, and one of the most outspoken and influential “spewers” of...
- Jun 27
Tailored Russian disinformation targets Polish farmer protests
Kremlin-backed actors attempt to sow division between Poland and Ukraine. BANNER: A Polish demonstrator partakes in the blockade of the...
- Jun 26
Doppelganger Strikes Back: Unveiling FIMI Activities Targeting European Parliament Elections
The pro-Kremlin Doppelganger campaign continued its copycatting and reality-distorting activities during the European Parliament...
- Jun 18
Another battlefield: Telegram as a digital front in Russia’s war against Ukraine
In this new report, the DFRLab investigates the role of Telegram in Russia since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Banner: Paper...
- Jun 11
Kremlin Shady Horse: Vincenzo Lorusso. Classic Russian propaganda with an Italian aftertaste
The project “Shady Horses” delves into investigating Russian propaganda dissemination within Western countries through prominent...
- Jun 10
Manipulated voices: Belarus’s disinformation targeting Lithuanian democracy
In the days leading up to Lithuania’s 2024 presidential elections, which were held in May 2024, a foreign information manipulation and...
- May 29
Kremlin Shady Horse Ilan Șor: The main voice of Russia in Moldovan politics
The project “Shady Horses” delves into investigating Russian propaganda dissemination within Western countries through prominent...
- Apr 22
The Tragic Fate of Cultural Heritage in Occupied Territories
The tragic fate of cultural heritage in occupied territories is a result of deliberate destruction by Kremlin authority, neglect, and...
- Apr 11
Regional Resilience: Ukraine’s Path to Victory
With the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the local authorities faced many challenges related to the war. During...
- Apr 9
Elections with a shift to the right: how could the Dutch coalition impact Ukraine?
Written by UCMC/Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group Migrants “Brought it” to the Elections Last summer, the Dutch coalition government...
- Mar 22
Ukraine’s Security Council Secretary: The West is still in denial over Russia
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Ukrainian Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov...
- Feb 14
Russian milbloggers falsely accuse Kazakhstan of opening a NATO military facility
Russian military bloggers threatened the Central Asian nation after it opened a new conference hall at a training center for UN...
- Feb 13
What He Said and What it Really Means – “Interview/ history lecture”
Putin opened the Kremlin’s doors to the fired former Fox News host, right-wing extremist Tucker Carlson as microphone-holder for a two...
- Jan 30
Stalin Revived and Admired in Russia
Positive attitudes toward the deceased, former Soviet dictator are at a record high. (Source:@EtoBuziashvili/DFRLab via The Moscow Times)...
- Nov 17, 2023
“North Korean Rus”: The Image of the DPRK in Russian Propaganda
The rapprochement between Moscow and Pyongyang is causing concern in the West because of the supply of North Korean weapons to the...
- Nov 7, 2023
Israelis Know Who Stands Behind HAMAS
In the wake of the horrific attacks orchestrated by HAMAS on October 7, which left an estimated 1,400 Israelis dead and over 220 taken...
- Oct 24, 2023
Estonia Closes the Crypto Market Hole
Over 1500 Suspected Crypto Companies Shut Down Among Regulation Breach and Ties to Russia. Photo: Agency «Moscow» / snob.ru Estonia has...
- Oct 9, 2023
Closing the Net: Brazil Stops Russian Spy Activities
Sergei Tcherkasov. Source: folha.uol.com.br Infiltrating countries and compromising their security is no longer so easy as it was before....
- Jul 26, 2023
“What bad thing did Russia do to Ukraine?”: a Сhronicle of Enmity 1991-2014
Once, one of the Russian high-ranking officials said: “What has Russia done to Ukraine that is bad?“. This phrase became the meme of this...
- Jul 11, 2023
Why Wagner’s “Telegram mutiny” remains a dilemma for the Kremlin
Hugely popular in Russia, Telegram has mostly avoided Kremlin internet restrictions – for now. Banner: Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Telegram...
- Jun 23, 2023
Crimes against children and teenagers as part of Russia's planned genocide of Ukrainians
Cover by IMI Russia accusing Ukraine of "festering Nazism" with no evidence to support these claims is no surprise to anyone. The...
- Jun 21, 2023
Kremlin’s tide of disinformation can’t wash away the truth
The Kremlin reflexively turns to its favoured manipulation tactics of denial and aggressor/victim role reversal, but its propagandists...
- Jun 19, 2023
How Russia's propaganda budget has surged since the Ukraine invasion
$1.9 billion - that's how much the Kremlin spent on its global disinformation operation in 2022! Debunk.org explains how the Kremlin...
- Jun 15, 2023
Kremlin lies on child deportation blown up by the International Criminal Court
For over a year, Russian state-controlled outlets and pro-Kremlin pundits have been trying to convince themselves and the world that the...
- May 25, 2023
How not to interview a war criminal
In a masterclass on how not to interview a genocidal war criminal, Vice News traveled to Moscow to sit down for an exclusive with Maria...
- May 16, 2023
Malware masquerading as Google Bard ads targets millions of Facebook users
Perpetrators presented hijacked pages as Google’s AI service and convinced Facebook users, including a Georgian TV network, to download...
- May 4, 2023
Sports out of the politics
Iryna Lishchynska, sports director of Run Ukraine, explains how Russia promotes propaganda narratives through sports and how...
- Apr 21, 2023
NATO deterrence and defence: Military priorities for the Vilnius Summit
Source NATO Force Integration Unit Lithuania At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s July summit in Vilnius, the focus will...
- Apr 5, 2023
NGOs recorded cases of potential social media manipulation during municipal election campaign
During the election campaign for municipal councils and mayors, potential attempts to artificially boost the content posted by certain...
- Feb 21, 2023
Facebook content moderation inconsistencies in the context of war in Ukraine
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, social activists, opinion leaders, journalists and ordinary civic-minded people have noticed a...
- Feb 14, 2023
Bot accounts spread the vision of the “Russian World” on social media platforms
An analysis of the Facebook page ‘Russkaya Litva’ (Russian Lithuania), showed an entire network of interconnected accounts has been...
- Feb 3, 2023
Almost a fifth of pro-Kremlin disinformation targets economic sanctions
Pro-Russian disinformation aimed at undermining support for sanctions mainly consists of claims that they are ineffective, misguided,...
- Jan 25, 2023
A plan for Russia (and Belarus): Marshall vs. Martial? Hint: not a Marshall plan
The Russian war in Ukraine is far from being over, but perhaps it is a natural time to think about what will happen after the Russian...
- Jan 19, 2023
The Future of Finance in Post-War Ukraine
Strengthening the banking sector and developing a well-functioning capital market will be essential for the successful reconstruction of...
- Jan 10, 2023
Calls for Unconditional Peace in Ukraine: Should We Trust Them?
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, propositions and demands for peace have become an integral part of daily...
- Dec 16, 2022
Soviet Economic Integration or Industrial Colonialism?
Analysis Overcoming the political and cultural Soviet-imperial legacy is an urgent need for Ukraine. For a long time, its desire for...
- Dec 15, 2022
Advertisements of more than 300 brands detected on portals spreading disinformation
Around the world, disinformation-spreading websites receive a large portion of their income by showing advertisements. The ads of...
- Dec 13, 2022
THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM: FROM THE BALTIC TO THE BLACK SEA
Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be...
- Dec 1, 2022
Pro-Kremlin disinformation targeting Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
In Lithuania and the Russian-language segment of Baltic media, anti-sanctions messaging has been particularly strong due to the...
- Nov 24, 2022
How will the next Congress affect US policy on Ukraine, China, the economy, and more?
Source: The Atlantic Council Get ready for a divided government on a knife’s edge. Following the midterm elections, Democrats will hold...
- Nov 16, 2022
Resilience Against Disinformation: A New Baltic Way to Follow?
Lithuanian people take part in a traditional relay race Vilnius-Riga-Tallinn dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way at the...
- Nov 4, 2022
Pro-Kremlin actors attempt to justify Russia's missile bombardment of populated areas
The October 10th missile attacks across Ukraine were a key feature of disinformation in Latvia and Lithuania, with attempts to justify...
- Oct 28, 2022
Anti-refugee propagandists target economic concerns and fears of cultural “Ukrainization”
Anti-Ukrainian refugee disinformation mainly targets people’s financial concerns in Latvia and Lithuania, while it focuses more on...
- Oct 21, 2022
Kremlin propagandists warmly welcome Elon Musk’s ‘peace strategy’ tweets
While disinformation actors predominately focused on front line developments, with well-rehearsed claims that the West is provoking the...
- Oct 20, 2022
Pro-Kremlin actors accuse the West of 'sabotaging' the Nord Stream gas pipelines
The explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines saw Kremlin propagandists seize the opportunity to sow division among Western nations by...
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