Putin Faces Antisemitism Accusations Following Attack on ‘Ethnic Jews’
By Joshua Stein, for UkraineAlert Russian President Vladimir Putin has been accused of antisemitism after claiming that “ethnic Jews” are seeking to “tear apart” the Russian Orthodox Church. The Russian leader’s controversial statements, which came during his annual end-of-year press conference in Moscow on December 19, were the latest in a series of similar outbursts since the […]
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The Kremlin Prepares for the Polish EU Presidency
By EUvsDisinfo As Poland prepares to take on the presidency of the EU Council on 1 January 2025, it continues to face intense disinformation attacks from top-level Russian officials and pro-Kremlin outlets. Much of the Russian disinformation spread by the Polish edition of Pravda throughout 2024 can be summarised by three narratives. Firstly, Poland is […]
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RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA: SUMMARY OF 2024
The Russian-Ukrainian war continues, and the Kremlin’s demand for propaganda efforts remains consistently high. The main mistake may be underestimating the power of propaganda and its significant impact on the moods within Ukraine, in Europe, and the world at large. Certain propaganda trends emerged as early as 2022-2023, and some have become noticeable today. Constantly […]
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1 000 and 4 000 Days of Russia’s War Against Ukraine
By EUvsDisinfo Russia’s war against Ukraine started in 2014 with the invasion and illegal annexation of Crimea. Russia engineered the war in Eastern Ukraine and later annexed parts of Donbas and other regions in South-east Ukraine against international laws. Soon, 4 000 days will have passed. Russia started the full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022, having fabricated a casus belli. The largest war in Europe since […]
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Fighting disinformation in Central Europe: showing StopFake’s best practices in Poland, Warsaw
StopFake is proud to announce Warsaw as our next stop! It’s an amazing opportunity to learn more about fake news, how to spot it and how to counter disinformation. This year, StopFake is celebrating its 10th anniversary. To celebrate, the famous Ukraine-based team of fact-checkers has teamed up with Google News Initiative to go on […]
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Fighting disinformation in Central Europe: showing StopFake’s best practices in Croatia, Zagreb
StopFake is proud to announce Zagreb as our next stop! It’s an amazing opportunity to learn more about fake news, how to spot it and how to counter disinformation. This year, StopFake is celebrating its 10th anniversary. To celebrate, the famous Ukraine-based team of fact-checkers has teamed up with Google News Initiative to go on […]
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Strong Enough
By EUvsDisinfo The Kremlin continued its elections interference campaign in the US until the final moments, utilising the same playbook we have repeatedly uncovered. This week, in a striking demonstration of reality denial, we have witnessed pro-Kremlin sources pushing two contradictory narratives about North Korean troops in Kursk region: claiming they do not exist at all, while […]
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Fighting disinformation in Central Europe: showing StopFake’s best practices in Slovakia, Bratislava
StopFake is proud to announce Bratislava as our next stop! It’s an amazing opportunity to learn more about fake news, how to spot it and how to counter disinformation. This year, StopFake is celebrating its 10th anniversary. To celebrate, the famous Ukraine-based team of fact-checkers has teamed up with Google News Initiative to go on […]
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Fighting disinformation in Central Europe: showing StopFake’s best practices in Czech Republic, Prague
StopFake is proud to announce Prague as our next stop! It’s an amazing opportunity to learn more about fake news, how to spot it and how to counter disinformation. This year, StopFake is celebrating its 10th anniversary. To celebrate, the famous Ukraine-based team of fact-checkers has teamed up with Google News Initiative to go on […]
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Green Agenda or a ‘Global Plot’?
By EUvsDisinfo With COP 29 approaching, Pro-Kremlin outlets’ climate coverage reveals a calculated strategy: acknowledge climate change while using it as a tool to attack Western policies. As Azerbaijan prepares to host the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 29), the Russian state-controlled and other pro-Kremlin outlets’ coverage of climate issues continues to follow a familiar pattern. […]
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Putin Keeping Up Appearances
By EUvsDisinfo Over the last week, leaders and leaders-to-be around the world have appeared in public and some of their words about others deserve scrutiny. In Russia, where Vladimir Putin is the dominant figure in state-controlled outlets, the Kremlin keeps a schedule of keynote events where the master can set the party line straight and […]
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How to Use OSINT Tools to Investigate Identity-Based Disinformation/FIMI
By EUvsDisinfo Foreign actors are exploiting sensitive topics such as multicultural integration, women’s emancipation, and LGBTIQ+ rights to portray them as immoral and somehow detrimental to ‘traditional values’ in order to create social fractures and advance their geopolitical agendas through identity-based disinformation (IBD). IBD represents a sophisticated form of Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) that weaponises identity characteristics […]
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Fake: Graffiti with «Kneeling Zelensky» Appears in New York — Fox News
The American channel Fox News did not publish graffiti with Volodymyr Zelensky kneeling. Moreover, the distributed image was most likely generated by artificial intelligence. This fake is part of the Russian propaganda narrative to discredit Ukraine in connection with the 2024 US presidential elections. Social networks and Russian websites are widely spreading information that graffiti […]
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Putin’s 2022 ‘peace proposal’ was a blueprint for the destruction of Ukraine
By Peter Dickinson, for UkraineAlert One of the many myths and legends surrounding the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the idea that Kyiv rejected a reasonable Russian peace deal in the early weeks of the war. In reality, recently obtained documents confirm that the terms offered by the Kremlin in spring 2022 would have left Ukraine partitioned, disarmed, internationally isolated, […]
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Brick by (Crumbling) Brick
By EUvsDisinfo Kremlin disinformation peddlers spare no effort to gush about the BRICS Summit in Kazan, singing praises to Putin as the chief architect of a new world order. Meanwhile, the contested election in Georgia remains in Moscow’s sights as it recycles old disinformation tropes. Last week there was a big show in town: the […]
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Russia’s Remorseless Moldova Campaign Nears a Crescendo
The impending vote for Moldova’s head of state is a key moment in the new East-West conflict. By Olga Lautman, for CEPA Russia has worked tirelessly and systematically over several years to undermine Moldova’s pro-western President Maia Sandu. This campaign reaches its zenith on November 3 when the country holds its run-off vote for the head […]
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