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The Kremlin’s Malign Influence Inside the US
The United States and its allies face a serious, persistent, and long-term threat from the current Kremlin, which wants to undermine trust in and the functioning of democratic institutions and establish networks of malign influence to advance Moscow’s strategic goals
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 the disease beyond China’s borders served as the occasion for the Russian propaganda to open a new “front” in the information war.
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 parties.
The Kremlin’s Influence Quarterly vol.3
The third issue of The Kremlin’s Influence Quarterly focuses on the malign influence of Putin’s regime in the areas of politics, media, as well as history and culture.
The Kremlin’s Social Media Influence Inside the United States: A Moving Target
The Kremlin’s Social Media Influence inside the United States: A Moving Target is a report co-authored by Maria Snegovaya and Kohei Watanabe summarizing key insights of their analysis of social media behavior…
Aquarium Leaks. Inside the GRU’s Psychological Warfare Program
In this exclusive and groundbreaking report, Free Russia Foundation has translated and published five documents from the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency. The documents, obtained and analyzed by…
The Russian Orthodox Church’s Isolation from the People
The Russian Orthodox Church—as a social, organizational, and financial structure - is extremely fragile, and may collapse in the near future, argues this report by Fedor Krasheninnikov
Political Crisis in Belarus
In this September 2020 analysis, Free Russia Foundation's Fellow Alexander Morozov chronicles the unraveling of the political crisis in Belarus unleashed by Lukashenka's illegal efforts to hold on…
The Company You Keep: Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Influence Operations in Africa
Yevgeny Prigozhin, or "Putin's chef," as he's called in the press, is notorious for two things: dispatching Russian mercenaries into war zones and running a troll farm accused…
The Kremlin’s Influence Quarterly #2
The second issue of The Kremlin’s Influence Quarterly continues investigating the malign influence of Putin’s Russia in the areas of the economy, media, religion, civil society, politics, and…