Regulating online hate will have unintended, but predictable, consequences
The Canadian government is currently holding consultations on a new online hate bill. This bill would update Bill C-36, which addresses hate propaganda, hate crimes and hate speech; the amendment died following the election call last year.
‘Comrade Hitler’ and Other Russian Fantasies
For over a decade, Russian society has been bombarded with hardcore, revanchist propaganda. The West did not take note. A typical Russian soldier who is fighting now in Ukraine is about 20 years old.
Ben Dubow: The Textbook War
Indiscriminate shelling has destroyed Ukraine’s physical infrastructure, but Russian operations also focus on a less visible target: history textbooks.
Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine invasion is the world’s first full-scale cyberwar
Ever since the dawn of the Internet Age, the potential to weaponize digital technologies as tools of international aggression has been known.
Edward Lucas: History Matters
Are we living in 1914 or 1939? Or 1918? These seemingly abstruse questions are at the heart of European countries’ policy (or lack of it) towards Ukraine.
Imperial myths and genocidal realities: 100 days of Putin’s Ukraine War
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been made possible by one of the most comprehensive disinformation campaigns in world history.
Shrinking Russia Seeks China’s Aid
The complications of the Russia-China axis are deeper than they look, and probably involve a future of Kremlin kowtowing. Russia and China are locked into an increasingly close embrace.
Russian Propagandists Regain Footing on Ukraine
Russian information outlets are recovering from a bad start. How can they be countered? Russia’s invasion of Ukraine stunned not only the world, but apparently the Kremlin’s own propaganda machine.
Open Letter to Noam Chomsky (and other like-minded intellectuals) on the Russia-Ukraine war
coauthored with Bohdan Kukharskyy (City University of New York), Anastassia Fedyk (UC Berkeley) and Ilona Sologoub (VoxUkraine) Dear Professor Chomsky, We are a group of Ukrainian academic economists who were…
Not Only War: How the Kremlin Tries to Influence the Policies of Other Countries
Moscow’s attempts to change the policies of other countries in its favor are not limited to military actions in Ukraine.