Russia’s fake Ukraine war report exposed in Putin PR disaster
Russian President Vladimir Putin's twisted propaganda machine has been revealed after a fake news report purported to be from the conflict in Ukraine was...
Russian Orthodox Church lends weight to Putin patriotism
A raid by Russian Orthodox vigilantes on "blasphemous" artworks in central Moscow has highlighted the influence of traditional, ultra-conservative values in President Vladimir Putin's...
Emails Link Kremlin Troll Farm to Bizarre New York Photography Exhibit
For about a month last year, posters advertising a touring art exhibition called Material Evidence. Syria. Ukraine were nearly impossible to avoid in New...
Russia Blocks Euronews ISIS Video Over ‘Extremist’ User Comment
Roscomnadzor, Russia's Internet watchdog, has blocked YouTube videos before, threatening access to the entire service for users whose ISPs cannot filter HTTPS traffic. This...
Renovation of NATO Center of Excellence for Strategic Communications building in Riga completed
The building on Kalnciema Street 11 in the Riga suburb of Pardaugava has been completely renovated to house the NATO Center of Excellence for...
Game of trolls: the hip digi-kids helping Putin’s fight for online supremacy
The job ads give little away. They ask only for “content managers” or “production editors” in a nondescript part of St Petersburg, and offer...
Putin Loves Labour’s Leader-in-Waiting
Labour just suffered an election catastrophe, but that hasn’t stopped the Kremlin from pushing far-left Jeremy Corbyn’s candidacy for party leader.
Britain’s standard-bearer liberal newspaper...
Russian Censors Falsify Evidence Against Newspaper to Uphold Ban on Political Coverage
Almost a year ago exactly, the Kremlin’s media watchdog agency, Roskomnadzor, warned a series of news outlets against publishing reports about a protest that took...
Lyudmila Savchuk, Former Russian Internet ‘Troll,’ Awarded 1 Ruble In Symbolic Damages
A Russian court Monday awarded symbolic damages of one ruble ($0.01) to a former “Kremlin troll” who worked for an alleged “factory” responsible for creating pro-Russian...
“Hitler was an Anglo-American stooge”: the tall tales in a Moscow bookshop
Conspiracies abound in the Dom Knigi store’s non-fiction section, but what is truly unknown is the extent to which Russians believe what is written.
Adolf...