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Russia’s Black Sea Defeats Get Flushed Down Vladimir Putin’s Memory Hole

By Peter Dickinson, UkraineAlert There was much pomp and pageantry on display recently in former Russian imperial capital Saint Petersburg as Vladimir Putin presided over...

Putin’s Propagandists Feast on Orbán’s Words

By Dorka Takácsy, for CEPA Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s performative diplomacy is aiding the Kremlin’s anti-Western propaganda. Orbán managed to do two favors for Moscow in...

Homegrown Terrorism: Putin’s Dirty Secret

By Kseniya Kirillova, for CEPA Some Russian propagandists have broken with the Kremlin narrative by questioning if NATO and Ukraine are behind an upsurge in terrorist...

Barely a Wobble: Russians Trust Tsar Vladimir

By Walter Clemens, for CEPA Russian public opinion is not very different from the 19th century. The tsar can do no wrong. Problems are blamed on...

Freedom for Assange is Defeat for Russia, say Putin’s Mouthpieces 

By Julia Davis, for CEPA The Australian hacker Assange has been freed and returned home, but there is no joy among his Russian admirers. Julian Assange...

“Disinformation is One Problem Among Many in the Information Environment” – Interview with Alicia...

By EUvsDisinfo Alicia Wanless is the director of the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which aims to foster...

Holding Putin’s propagandists accountable for crimes in Ukraine

By Kristina Hook, Anna Vyshniakova, for UkraineAlert At dawn in May 2020, a French police raid on a sleepy village near Paris ended a 26-year manhunt for...

Serbian Propaganda Factories Boost Support for Moscow

By Leon Hartwell, for CEPA As Serbian media outlets stoke support for Russia across the Balkans, the West must challenge Belgrade’s disinformation. When Ukraine’s first lady, Olena...

Russia’s Georgia strategy offers hints of Kremlin vision for Ukraine

By Nicholas Chkhaidze, for UkraineAlert Recent efforts by the Georgian government to adopt a Kremlin-style law imposing restrictions on civil society have laid bare the...

Putin is on an historic mission and will not stop until he is finally defeated

By Peter Dickinson, for UkraineAlert There was no escaping the mounting sense of gloom in late February as the world marked the second anniversary of...