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Never let a crisis go to waste
In the Kremlin’s playbook of manipulation, every crisis, every tragedy, is an asset. The Israel-Iran escalation is no exception. The...
Jun 24, 2025


African Initiative: Russian FIMI operation disguised as a news agency
The Kremlin has steadily expanded its foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) operations globally. We have tracked their...
Jun 19, 2025


From Screen to Battlefield: Constructing the Image of the Enemy on Russian Television
As recently as early 2014, 66% of Russians had a positive attitude toward Ukraine and Ukrainians, but within a year, Kremlin propaganda...
May 30, 2025


Exposing and analysing Russia’s FIMI operations
On March 19, the EU HRVP Kaja Kallas presented the 3rd EEAS Report(opens in a new tab) on Foreign Information Manipulation and...
May 21, 2025


Enter the galaxy: a network analysis of influence operations
Foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) operations are a complex and multi-faceted challenge which, as evidenced by...
Apr 16, 2025


Russian spies as disinformation actors
For years, one of the biggest obsessions of pro-Kremlin disinformation peddlers has been convincing their audiences that any and all...
Apr 4, 2025


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)...
Mar 28, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


Schadenfreude over the abyss
Pro-Kremlin disinformation operators have tried to smear, delegitimise and humiliate Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy since his...
Mar 12, 2025


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, 2025


“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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


“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, 2025


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, 2025


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
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