Allowing Russian and Belarusian participation in international competitions helps their propaganda
September 10th saw the celebration of the international Fencing Day. Under the motto ‘How will you celebrate: ‘Fencing is for life’, the...
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- Sep 20
Kremlin propagandists seek to refute Ukrainian military successes on the front line
The Ukrainian military offensive was a key focus of Kremlin propagandists in Estonia, who sought to reject Ukraine's battlefield...
- Sep 9
Economic Sanctions in the Discourse of Pro-Kremlin Messengers
In the context of invasion to Ukraine, narratives about the Western sanctions against Russia are an even more prevalent topic than ever -...
- Sep 8
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...
- Sep 5
Pro-Kremlin Wikipedia alternative off to a rough start
Member-only pages, restrictive content policies, and a lack of transparency: Runiversalis is a wiki in name only. Encyclopedia...
- Sep 2
Pro-Kremlin messengers use decontextualized report to spread claims of Ukrainian war crimes
In Lithuania, the frontline of the Russia-Ukraine war has become the focus for pro-Kremlin messengers with allegations of Ukrainian war...
- Aug 29
Disinformation actors exploit economic crisis to attack support for Ukrainian aid
New narratives seek to exploit current economic woes in Latvia, asserting that continued humanitarian and military support for Ukraine is...
- Aug 18
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 11
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
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 14
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
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 6
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 30
How ordinary Russians were turned into murderers and rapists through TV and smartphones
Article by: Liubov Tsybulska Speaking at a meeting of the UN Security Council on 21 June 2022, information warfare expert Liubov...
- Jun 16
'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
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...
- Jun 7
Alternative universe: Kremlin TV prepped its Russian audience for a full-scale invasion to Ukraine
In the weeks leading up to the invasion to Ukraine, Kremlin propaganda apparatus went out its way to convince domestic audiences that...
- May 12
In Kremlin’s spider web - social media analysis of the migrant crisis disinformation on Facebook
Comprehensive analysis of the networks of profiles, pages, and groups on social media has shown that Facebook pages and groups, which...
- May 11
War with an empire and russian imperial mindset
This war can have many names. War of russia against Ukraine, war of barbarians against civilization, war between darkness and light to...
- May 9
Kremlin media on the ban of Victory Day: the Baltic States are mental degenerates
Celebration of May 9th, or the Victory Day, has been an important date in Soviet Union, but in the past decades it became a...