The new propaganda wars
Even though the Berlin Wall was destroyed more than a quarter-century ago and the city rebuilt, new propaganda wars are being waged here and...
Russian Media Outlets Falsely Accuse Belarusian Brothers of Brussels Attack
On March 14, eight days before the terrorist attacks in Brussels, the Russian media outlet Lifenews reported (archive) that two Belarusian brothers, Ivan and Aleksey Dovbash,...
Yahoo Reports First Content Removal Requests from the Russian Government
Yahoo, the American multinational Internet and technology company, has released its latest transparency report, listing the numbers of government requests for user data or...
Russia’s information warfare – airbrushing reality
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Ben Nimmo is a senior fellow at the Institute for Statecraft in London specialising in Russian information warfare and influence. He formerly worked as...
Major Cyber Attacks on ‘False Propaganda’ Swedish Media
A series of coordinated cyber attacks knocked Sweden’s main newspapers offline for several hours over the weekend, with early reports suggesting the attacks originated...
The Baltic Elves Taking on Pro-Russian Trolls
What at first looked like as a social media grudge match could be a precursor to invasion, war and resistance in the Baltics, Michail...
The Norwegian TV series that’s enraged the Kremlin
Okkupert (“Occupied”), the most expensive Norwegian television show in history, never mentions the word “quisling.” And yet its premise — a Russian occupation of...
Finnish journalist Jessikka Aro’s inquiry into Russian trolls stirs up a hornet’s nest
Soon after Jessikka Aro poked the trolls, they started to stir, Nick Miller wrote for Sidney Morning Herald.
In one of the early calls, someone phoned...
How to Comb Russia’s TV News
This article is part of a larger guidebook by RuNet Echo to help people learn how to conduct open-source research on the Russian Internet....
By matching Moscow’s paranoia, the west plays into Putin’s hands
The current state of relations between Russia and the west is not a cold war – or at least not the Cold War 2.0....