Edward Lucas: The Kremlin’s 20 toxic tactics
By Edward Lucas, for CEPA
Human weakness means we find it is easier to admire problems than to solve them, to focus on the dangers...
Aleksandr Podrabinek: The American authorities have grounds for what they are doing
By Rights in Russia
In revenge for the misfortunes of Russia Today and Sputnik in the USA, the Kremlin has decided to hit back at...
The Daily Vertical: Correcting History In Lithuania (Transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL
The battle over history is about more than just history.
The struggle over memory is about more than memory.
Correcting the historical...
Moscow’s ‘Sleepers’ TV Serial a Disturbing Wake Up Call for Russians, Kirillova Says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
A new Russian television series, “The Sleepers,” which suggests the CIA is behind murders and terrorist acts in Russia...
The Daily Vertical: Farewell, Russian World (Transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL
Just one more sign that ethnicity and language don't necessarily translate into political loyalty.
Just one more signal that Moscow's grip...
Putin TV Not about Propaganda but about Dehumanizing Its Viewers, Yakovenko Says
By Paul Goble, for Window on Eurasia
It is long past time calling “the content of Russia media propaganda,” Igor Yakovenko says. Propaganda is about...
Watch out: Russia’s tactics will evolve
Belated, partial and out of date: that, broadly, is the West’s reaction to the menace from Russia.
By Edward Lucas, for CEPA
The belated is merely annoying;...
Six Features of the Disinformation Age
By Kelly Born, for Project Syndicate
We are living in a brave new world of disinformation and propaganda, and as long as only its purveyors...
The Daily Vertical: True Extremism (Transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL
It could happen if you say true things.
Like that Russia's forceful annexation of Crimea was a violation of international law.
Or...
Moscow, Not Kyiv, Behind Ethnocide of Ethnic Russians in Ukraine, Yakovenko Says
Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
The Russian Duma has declared that Kyiv’s decision to make Ukrainian the language of instruction in Ukrainian schools is “’an...