Category: Propaganda

Yandex is the Kremlin’s Weapon Against Democracy
Its close cooperation with the Russian authorities and security services

Russian Society is in the Midst of a Profound Transformation not Captured by Traditional Opinion Polls
Between March-April 2022, the trust in television as a source of information fell thirty percent

Propaganda Issues
Critics of Russian propaganda often reproduce its core mistake — taking their own perceptions of reality for reality itself

Stoking Anxiety: How the Russian Media Covers Tensions with Ukraine
And What Ordinary Russians Think About It

The Pandemic: Anti-Western rhetoric and information campaign by the Kremlin-controlled Russian media
Today, it is hard to say whether the unraveling COVID-19 pandemic provided the reason for the Russian government to dust off their old textbooks, but the spread of…

Disinformation, Euroskepticism and pro−Russian Parties in Eastern Europe
What social groups support pro-Russian parties in Eastern Europe? This paper demonstrates that pro-Russian parties in Eastern Europe tend to have electorates with significantly more Euroskeptic attitudes than voter bases of mainstream…

Navalny, “Nationalism”, and Never-Ending Reflexive Control
How the Kremlin Undermines Western Solidarity with the Russian Opposition Using the Left

Who Is Behind the Renewed Effort to Push Nord Stream 2 on Europe?
The PR Campaign: April 2020 has witnessed a conspicuous uptick of publications in Western and Russian media in support of the Nord Stream 2 project: Germans want closer…

Kremlin’s Efforts to Sow Uncertainty and Distrust in Germany Fall Short
A special report by the EEAS on Coronavirus Disinformation offers a thorough analysis of tactics, strategies and vectors of effort by Kremlin-controlled media on the issue of Coronavirus.…

Michael Weiss: Misrule of Law: How the Kremlin Uses Western Institutions to Undermine the West
Watch the full version of the “Misrule of Law: How the Kremlin Uses Western Institutions to Undermine the West” report presentation in Kyiv, Ukraine. Speaker: Michael Weiss, the…