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Disinformation actors blame the West for rising inflation and push claims of 'Russophobia'

Disinformation actors in Lithuania continued to focus on the global economic crisis, blaming the West for rising inflation, while in...

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 -...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Propaganda via Cinema: Russian mercenaries cynically presented as heroes

Newly built Russian film is glorifying “Russian gladiators” in the Central African Republic who are accused by the UN of robbery, rape...