Debunker: 'The Russian media is free'
WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: One claim often made by pro-Kremlin media outlets is that ‘the mass media in Russia is free.’ They argue...
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Debunker: 'Europe cannot cope without Russian gas'
WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: In response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the EU has imposed wide-ranging...
Debunker: 'Military aid prolongs the war in Ukraine'
WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: Throughout the Russia-Ukraine war, Kremlin propagandists have consistently promoted the disinformation...
Debunker: 'Military aid is being stolen in Ukraine'
WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: Since the full-scale Russian invasion, Ukraine has received military aid from a number of its...
Debunker: The 'Ukraine Nazi' disinformation narrative
WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: The 'Nazism' claim is frequently employed to target Ukraine with false accusations that the country and...
Debunker: 'The West is preparing for WWIII'
WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: Since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, Kremlin propagandists have promoted the...
Debunker: 'Ukraine is losing the war'
WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Kremlin propagandists have sought to...
Debunker: 'The EU is controlled by the US'
WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: Russian propagandists have sought to promote the disinformation narrative that ‘the EU is controlled by...
Debunker: 'Russia is unaffected by sanctions'
WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: Since Russia launched its war of aggression in Ukraine in February 2022, the EU has imposed 11 successive...
Debunker: 'NATO threatens Russia on its borders'
WHAT KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS SAY: Kremlin officials, propagandists, pro-Kremlin media are systematically spreading a narrative that ‘NATO...
Kremlin spent 1.9 billion USD on propaganda last year, the budget exceeded by a quarter
Since the media was compared to a weapon by Russian officials and propagandists on multiple occasions, the increased spending on the...
Bot accounts spread the vision of the “Russian World” on social media platforms
An analysis of the Facebook page ‘Russkaya Litva’ (Russian Lithuania), showed an entire network of interconnected accounts has been...
Calls for Unconditional Peace in Ukraine: Should We Trust Them?
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, propositions and demands for peace have become an integral part of daily...
Kremlin propaganda takes aim at Western military aid for Ukraine
Disinformation related to military aid has been more prevalent in Ukraine than the countries that provide it. Pro-Russian Telegram...
Pro-Kremlin disinformation targeting Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
In Lithuania and the Russian-language segment of Baltic media, anti-sanctions messaging has been particularly strong due to the...
Marina Ovsyannikova: Russian propagandist or opposition figure?
A screengrab of a woman appearing on the main news programme of Russian state-run Channel One with a poster saying "No war" had overflown...
Economic Sanctions in the Discourse of Pro-Kremlin Messengers
In the context of invasion to Ukraine, narratives about the Western sanctions against Russia are an even more prevalent topic than ever -...
Coining lies. Kremlin spends 1.5 Billion per year to spread disinformation and propaganda
In democratic countries, media is referred to as “the fourth estate”. However, this term does not apply to Russia, where the media is...
ZAPAD 2021 Communication Analysis: Messages,Narratives, (Dis)information
Communication analysis of ZAPAD 2021 indicated a presence of a number of complex information influence operations that were employed by...
Back to the (Soviet) basics: Ukrainian biolabs and dirty bombs in the Kremlin’s propaganda
The conspiracy theory about Ukrainian army developing bioweapons and aspiring to acquire a 'dirty bomb' became a culprit of the Kremlin...
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