Why Russia’s Alternate History of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Matters
On Tuesday, the Dutch Safety Board issued its long-awaited report on what brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine on July 17,...
Putin’s Paid and Unpaid Liars
The Dutch Safety Board has issued a report indicating that a Russian BUK missile destroyed Malaysian flight MH17, killing all 283 passengers and 15...
Putin Can’t Stop the Internet
Since the days of the Soviet Union, Russians have found ways to communicate using new technologies.
In 1955 a young Soviet physicist named Vladimir Fridkin...
Putin Begins Propaganda Blitz to Sell his Syrian Bombing Campaign
The Russian government has launched an all-out media campaign to sell its involvement in Syria to the Russian people. On all official television channels...
Russia’s Media Glamorizing Military Exploits In Syria
War propaganda is something that has been there and about since the 20th century. During the Great War or the First World War as...
War Is Peace: Russia’s Orwellian Propaganda (Op-Ed)
The Russian authorities have achieved remarkable success in the Syrian war. According to a poll by state-run VTsIOM, 66 percent of citizens approve of sending Russian combat aircraft to Syria, even...
Confused About Russia’s Intentions in Syria? Putin Wants You to Be
It's not easy being a Western diplomat dealing with Russia. First there's the cold, the poor pay and the long hours. Then there's the...
Cheltenham Literature Festival: Inside Putin’s Russia – “state control through lies”
"In chess we have fixed rules and unpredictable results," former world champion and human rights activist Gary Kasparov told Cheltenham Literature Festival. "In (Vladimir)...
Seven strategies of domestic Russian propaganda
An important attribute of Russia’s modern policy has been the growth in military hysteria and the constant need for both internal and external enemies....
60 Years in Journalism: Russia Reverting to Type
A year after President Obama met with Vladimir Putin and described him slouching and "looking like that bored schoolboy in the back of the...