Tinker, tailor, busted Russian spy
The hard, painful, pointy end of oncoming consequences has hit the Kremlin. Their foot soldiers got caught red-handed in Germany and...
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Apr 10
Francophobes in the Kremlin
Instead of sending love letters to the Élysée, the pro-Kremlin disinformation apparatus has taken France into its crosshairs by spreading...
Feb 22
The Kremlin’s global spinnings
More reports are shining light on the Kremlin global disinformation ecosystem, which does not shy away from putting human lives in danger...
Jan 26
The Kremlin’s upside-down world in 2024
The year 2024 will be busy. Continuing from our disinfo review of last week, we present a short New Year’s overview of the main features...
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...
May 10, 2023
Kremlin spent 1.9 billion USD on propaganda last year, the budget exceeded by a quarter
Since the media was compared to a weapon by Russian officials and propagandists on multiple occasions, the increased spending on the...
May 2, 2023
A hopeless mix of misleading narratives and plain old fakes
If anything, the Kremlin’s propagandists sure are persistent. They have been trying to deflect blame for Russia’s unprovoked war of...
Nov 11, 2022
Pro-Kremlin propagandists increase nuclear weapons rhetoric
No single narrative dominated the disinformation landscape in the Baltics this week, with propagandists largely pursuing existing themes....
Nov 8, 2022
Russian outlets steadily increased claims that Ukraine will start a war
Russian media mentions of “Ukrainian aggression” narratives increased 50 percent in January 2022 compared with the two prior months. A...
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 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...
Sep 20, 2022
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 5, 2022
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...
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...
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...
May 9, 2022
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...
Jan 14, 2022
Pro-Kremlin media uses 30th anniversary of USSR collapse to ignite nostalgia towards the Soviet era
During the months leading up to the 30th anniversary of the USSR dissolution, various Kremlin-related Russian media outlets tend to...
Dec 28, 2021
Kremlin media asserts that international experts ‘found nothing to cavil to’ at BelNPP
After Lithuania handed a protest note to Minsk for rushing to start the second unit of BelNPP without meeting the necessary nuclear...
Nov 12, 2021
Quo vadis fake news – trends in disinformation 2021
Main trends in Kremlin disinformation from the perspective of Central and Eastern Europe region. Report by INFO OPS Poland Foundation and...
Nov 10, 2021
By spreading disinformation, Minsk shifts the blame for increased migrant flow towards the West
As Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland grapple with a dramatic influx of illegal migration on the border with Belarus, the latter has started a...
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