“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...
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ANALYTICS
- Nov 7
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sports out of the politics
Iryna Lishchynska, sports director of Run Ukraine, explains how Russia promotes propaganda narratives through sports and how...
- Apr 21
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
- Oct 13, 2022
COVID-19 Conspirators Side with Russia: Hyperbolising Inflation and Supply Chain Disruptions
Stand with Ukraine? Make sure you are ready for dire economic consequences. This was the sentiment behind disinformation narratives,...
- Oct 11, 2022
Disinformation actors seek to legitimize Russia’s sham referendums
Recent developments in the Russia-Ukraine war drew the focus of pro-Kremlin voices in Lithuania, with attempts to legitimize Russia’s...
- Oct 4, 2022
Kremlin propagandists increase their attacks on Ukrainian refugees
A notable rise in anti-refugee messaging was observed in Estonia, with disinformation actors asserting that Ukrainian students will be...
- Sep 30, 2022
Posts related to Kaliningrad sanctions targeted by social media bots and trolls
In a matter of weeks after sanctions were imposed on the transit of goods to Kaliningrad, Facebook posts published by Lithuanian...
- Sep 29, 2022
Russia-aligned hacktivists stir up anti-Ukrainian sentiments in Poland
Russian Telegram channels possibly linked to Ghostwriter amplified forged letters published by hacktivist assets. On August 16, 2022,...
- Sep 8, 2022
Pro-Kremlin actors stoke energy crisis fears to fight back against economic sanctions
In Latvia and Lithuania, pro-Kremlin voices primarily focused on public concern regarding the current energy crisis in an effort to drive...
- Aug 18, 2022
Disinformation actors focus on topics ranging from the events of the Russia-Ukraine war to refugees
In Lithuania, disinformation actors are turning their attention to the events of the Russia-Ukraine war but the Kaliningrad transit...
- Aug 16, 2022
Chinese Influence in Lithuania
This report is a part of #CCPinCEE, a series of reports published by the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) analysing Chinese...
- Aug 11, 2022
Back to the (Soviet) basics: Ukrainian biolabs and dirty bombs in the Kremlin’s propaganda
The conspiracy theory about Ukrainian army developing bioweapons and aspiring to acquire a 'dirty bomb' became a culprit of the Kremlin...
- Jul 29, 2022
Refugees, sanctions, and military aid became targets of Kremlin disinformation about war in Ukraine
In its alternative universe, where the invasion to Ukraine is not actually an act of war but a 'special military operation', the Kremlin...
- Jul 22, 2022
Why do only the poor inhabitants of its outskirts go to die for Russia?
“The young, the poor, and the dead” is the headline of an article in Important Stories (rus. Важные истории) by Russian journalist Alesya...
- Jul 19, 2022
Russian missiles strike Vinnytsia. DFRLab report
On Thursday, July 14, Russia launched an attack in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia. The head of Regional Military Administration in...
- Jul 14, 2022
Russian diplomatic accounts spread questionable story about anti-Russian stickers at Auschwitz
On June 23, the Russian Arms Control Delegation in Vienna claimed that anti-Russian stickers had appeared at the Auschwitz-Birkenau...
- Jul 8, 2022
Russian hackers exaggerate impact of Lithuanian cyberattack
On June 23, the Lithuanian Cyber Security Center (NKSC) announced an increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that were...
- Jul 7, 2022
Analysis of the conversation between E. Macron and V. Putin
Analysis of the conversation between E. Macron and V. Putin - Introduction to the analysis of the manner in which Paris conducts its...
- Jul 6, 2022
The New Iron Curtain
Introduction: Putin Wakes Up to the Danger of a Free Internet On March 7, 2022, 11 days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Russian Deputy...
- Jun 29, 2022
ERASURE: RUSSIAN IMPERIALISM, MY RESEARCH ON DONBAS, AND I. DARYA TSYMBALYUK
Researcher and artist Darya Tsymbalyuk focuses on the processes of displacement and the after-effects of war in Donbas by employing a...
- Jun 16, 2022
'Think about that… twice': Tracking Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour on Lithuanian social media
In view of the increasingly discussed problem of Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour (CIB) and the widespread activity of bots on social...
- Jun 13, 2022
Coining lies. Kremlin spreads 1.5 Billion per year to spread disinformation and propaganda
In democratic countries, media is referred to as “the fourth estate”. However, this term does not apply to Russia, where the media is...
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