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Beyond censorship: Kremlin using another means to impose ideological control

By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia Preventing the publication of something or suppressing it after it has been published are all too familiar forms of censorship...

A decade of the Eastern Partnership: A cause for reflection, not for joy

By Esward Lucas, for CEPA After 10 years of the “Eastern Partnership” what do we have to celebrate? There is modest, homegrown progress in Armenia;...

Zelensky playing on Putin’s fears Ukraine could be an alternative Russia, Kirillova says

By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia Even before his inauguration, incoming Ukrainian president has launched an information war against Moscow, calling on others in the...

New polls: good news for Russians and Ukrainians, bad news for Kremlin, Davydov says

By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia Staunton, March 13 – Many people have been struck by new polls showing that Russians have remarkably positive attitudes...

Edward Lucas: Russia’s only ally

By Edward Lucas, for CEPA The West Needs to Formulate a Belarus Policy Before It Is Too Late Most countries don’t know what goes on in...

Jakub Kalensky: If we want to stop the aggression, we have to stop the...

StopFake talked to Jakub Kalensky, head of the anti-disinformation group of the Ukrainian Election Task Force, a co-founder of the East StratCom Task Force,...

Jakub Janda: StopFake set up the agenda of Russian disinformation as a major threat

  StopFake talked to Jakub Janda,  Head of the Kremlin Watch Program and Director at the European Values Think-Tank, about the current trends of Russian...

Kseniya Kirillova: The power of disappointment

By Kseniya Kirillova, for Integrity Initiative In the first year of the Russian-Ukrainian war, while trying to understand the origins of the patriotic upsurge that...

“It doesn’t seem like we’re striving to make third-party fact checking more practical for...

By Christine Schmidt, for NiemanLab Happy anniversary, Facebook: Snopes quit your fact-checking partnership. Poynter’s Daniel Funke reported Friday that Snopes has pulled out of the third-party debunking squad Facebook enlisted in...

Putin’s calendar of subversion

By Janusz Bugajsky, for CEPA The Kremlin profits from inciting division. Here are their likely targets for 2019. Whether the Kremlin has a special department that...