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Behind the curtain: a novel analytical approach to FIMI exposure
The European External Action Service (EEAS) has released its third report on foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI)...
1 day ago

Why Russia has been trying to take Crimea for centuries: myths and true facts about the peninsula
The information component has long been an integral part of modern conflicts. Ukraine has always been the target of Russia’s massive...
Mar 20


What we have learnt about FIMI after three years of full-scale war in Ukraine
By Mykola Balaban and Serhii Zhukov The modern level of economic, political, and informational globalisation offers vast opportunities...
Mar 19


Schadenfreude over the abyss
Pro-Kremlin disinformation operators have tried to smear, delegitimise and humiliate Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy since his...
Mar 12


How Russia Spreads Propaganda Through New Year’s Programming
At first glance, it seems like a musical concert, but upon closer inspection, it is a means of state propaganda. Since New Year’s holds...
Jan 30


“Gas Gangrene” of Kyiv and Moscow: The Informational Component
For the last three decades, Russia has wielded gas pricing and supply as instruments of political influence. What changed in 2025?...
Jan 22


Five historical pillars of Russian imperial propaganda
Russia’s war against Ukraine goes far beyond military aggression — it’s rooted in centuries of historical manipulation designed to...
Jan 20


Everything is going to be all right
Every year, shortly before midnight on 31 December, Vladimir Putin tells Russians that better times lie ahead, everything is going to be...
Jan 14


“Disinformation Is a Weapon, and We Are at War”: An Expert on Hybrid Threats in Romania
Interview with Susana Dragomir, political scientist, expert in strategic communications. In November and December, Romania held...
Jan 10


The Kremlin prepares for the Polish EU presidency
Poland took over the presidency of EU Council on 1 January 2025. Therefore, it faces intense disinformation attacks from top-level...
Jan 8


1000 and 4000 days of Russia weaponising information in its war against Ukraine
As Russia’s war against Ukraine has marked two grim milestones – 4000 days since the initial invasion in 2014 and 1000 days since the...
Dec 31, 2024


How the Rhetoric of Election Candidates in Romania and Moldova Echoes Kremlin Narratives
Right- and left-wing Euroskeptics echo Kremlin narratives, hiding behind the trope of a “horrible” Europe. Radical forces are gaining...
Dec 20, 2024


1,000 and 4,000 days of censorship in support of Russia’s war against Ukraine
Censorship is a form of information manipulation. Russia has unleashed an unprecedented campaign of domestic censorship , and it has also...
Dec 19, 2024

Sovranita Popolare: The Kremlin’s Information Saboteurs in Italy
In September, the world media reported on the emergence of posters in Italy bearing the slogan “Russia is not our enemy,” urging an end...
Dec 18, 2024

The Propaganda Factory: How RT Academy Teaches the World to Lie
For nearly two decades since its international “voyage”, Russia Today (RT), the Kremlin’s propaganda flagship, has concealed Russia’s war...
Dec 3, 2024


The Russian Media Hydra: How RT Circumvents EU and US Sanctions by Creating Dozens of Clones
Bribing bloggers, fake domains, and other ways the Russian propaganda resource circumvents sanctions. Detektor Media / Getty Images In...
Nov 29, 2024


Internal Propaganda: How the Kremlin Uses and Tames the “Z-Telegram”
We explore how Russian authorities were forced to allow a measure of freedom to critique them to war advocates on Telegram — and how they...
Nov 14, 2024

The Medusa of Propaganda: The West Steps Up its Opposition to RT
The US State Department has recently imposed new sanctions on Russian media company RT and its subsidiaries. Since the spring of 2022,...
Oct 24, 2024


"The penultimate warning." Russian propaganda about changes to Russia's nuclear doctrine
How Russian propagandists presented the changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine. This is not the first time Russia has threatened the world...
Oct 23, 2024


RT (Russia Today) as guerrilla activist
Most of the time, Kremlin mouthpieces such as RT and Sputnik conceal their continued defiance of EU and US transmission bans. They...
Oct 16, 2024
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