The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia by Mark Galeotti – review: ‘These guys make...
This is a gripping history of how the Russian state and criminal gangs became intertwined, says Simon Sebag Montefiore SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE This book could not be more relevant: it explains some...
View ArticleRussian Review: What is soft power and how to use it correctly?
This ‘book review’ is being pushed by the ‘soft power’ (information warfare) folks at the Russian Foreign Ministry. This is not ‘just’ a book review as much as it is also a commentary on soft power...
View ArticleAnother Former Russian Intelligence Officer Poisoned in the UK (28)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. A feeling of desperation, rage, and ‘flailing about’ is creeping into the Russian narrative. The target audience appears to be the West in their...
View ArticleWhite House Doesn’t Deny Trump Invited Putin to D.C.
A fairly clear strategy seems to be emerging out of the White House, but it seems the press refuses to acknowledge what President Trump is doing. President Trump appears to be putting talks between...
View ArticleRussia and the art of “provocation”
Wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. This is, without a doubt, the best explanation for Russian provocation charges I’ve ever read. Without a doubt, this tactic is “central to their behavior”, says an...
View ArticleThe Curious Case of David Jewberg, the Fake Senior Pentagon Russia Analyst
Fascinating case study, a superb Bellingcat investigation. Thoroughly investigated, well sourced, and it appears many, many knowledgeable people were contacted. The screenshots in the article are in...
View ArticleSkripal attack: 2,800 Russian bots ‘sowed confusion after poison attacks’
Deborah Haynes, Defence Editor March 24 2018, 12:01am, The Times Russia unleashed an “extensive” disinformation operation in Britain after the Salisbury spy attack, with thousands of suspected robotic...
View ArticlePutin Regime Turning to Anti-Semitism, ‘Last Card of a Dictatorship,’ Eidman...
Monday, April 2, 2018 Paul Goble Staunton, April 2 – The “well-organized” campaign of Internet posts blaming the Jews for the Kemerovo tragedy suggests, Igor Eidman says, that the Russian...
View ArticleDid California’s Ro Khanna get duped by Russia’s propaganda?
This is mind-numbing. The Hill is a fairly respectable publication. They’re throwing major shade at this Congressman and it is well deserved. The Hill is exposing Russian propaganda and Active...
View ArticlePropaganda as a drug – even for Putin’s Russia
March 30, 2018 – 23:18 By Kseniya Kirillova, for Defencereport Recently, Russian propaganda has committed another abomination against the dissident Ilya Yashinand his elderly grandmother. The camera...
View ArticleObama official: We could have stopped Russian trolls
There are some major problems with this article. Brett Bruen, who served as the White House director of global engagement from 2013 to 2015, says the Obama administration could have “thwarted” Russian...
View ArticleRussia’s digital warfare has put Western democracies in the crosshairs
Opinion: Russia is sowing discord, amid allegations of ties to assassinations and investments into social-media companies. The time for complacency is over by Lisa Shymko Apr 2, 2018 Lisa Shymko is a...
View ArticleWe must rethink Russia’s propaganda machine in order to reset the dynamic...
To understand Russian propaganda, we first have to discard the idea that the Kremlin is in charge of a coordinated media machine acting together with cyber-warriors to attack a single audience....
View ArticleAnother Former Russian Intelligence Officer Poisoned in the UK (29)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> The Russian propaganda campaign appears to be escalating, which is indicative of a lack of traction – most media and public...
View ArticleFacebook Has Removed Hundreds of Accounts Linked to a Russian Troll Farm
I do not believe Facebook and other social media is doing all it can do to help counter Russian trolls, Russian fake news, and Russian disinformation. Russian information warfare efforts continue on a...
View ArticleOpen source investigators identify Russian sniper in Donbas
A comment about this on another page mentioned this represents Russian “war crimes”. I do not if this is a war crime, but it certainly represents a Russian outright lie. Russia continually lies and...
View ArticleIs “Medium” A Pro-Russian Proxy Site Or Is It Fair And Balanced?
Today I read an article by Caitlin Johnstone, who is a non-apologetic pro-Russian journalist. She published a story, More Evidence That The UK’s Russia Narrative Is A Verdict In Search Of A Crime....
View ArticleAnother Former Russian Intelligence Officer Poisoned in the UK (30)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> The Russian campaign continues unabated, but the “clearly unhelpful” comment by the head of the Porton Down labs has given...
View ArticlePutin Thinks He’s Winning and is Expanding His Stalinist Attack on West,...
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 Paul Goble Staunton, April 3 – Many in the West following the decision of more than 20 countries to expel Russian diplomats to show solidarity with the British think that...
View ArticleRussia’s influence is much more than propaganda and fake news
04/04/2018 By Vincent Charles Keating and Katarzyna Kaczmarska The concern over Russia’s influence in the West has grown considerably in the past few years, particularly the Russian regime’s use of...
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