Woman poisoned by Russian nerve agent in Amesbury dies in hospital
By Harley Tamplin Sunday 8 Jul 2018 9:50 pm The woman left critically ill after being exposed to a Russian nerve agent has died, Scotland Yard said. Dawn Sturgess, 44, came into contact with Novichok...
View ArticleAnother Scathing Russian Parody
One of the better parodies post-loss for the Russian FIFA World Cup loss. Scathing video with subtitles. Many of the “thoughts” are widely rumored. One almost has to wonder how much is true.
View ArticlePro-Russian bias at Facebook?
There have been long-denied accusations of pro-Russian bias at numerous social media corporations. This appears to lean in the direction of pro-Russian bias at Facebook. Intentional? It certainly...
View ArticleRussia Now Illegally ‘Occupying’ Sea Of Azov, Denying Free Access and Passage
It appears Russia is, yet again, further encroaching on Ukraine. Now they are bound and determined not only to impede Ukraine access to its own ports, but they appear to be taking over international...
View Article🇬🇧Salisbury CW Attack / Syria / Iran / Russia Ad Hoc Update (99)
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Amesbury investigation is now a murder inquiry. Russians continue with their campaign of obfuscation and denial and...
View Article“Glory to Ukraine” Becomes Viral Meme
Ukrainian artist Andriy Yermolenko has updated his popular series of spoof #WorldCup posters to reflect Russian rage over Croatian player Domagoj Vida’s “Glory to Ukraine” video message The Croatian...
View ArticleUkraine Slogan Dents Putin Bid to Skip Politics at World Cup
By Anthony Halpin and Jasmina Kuzmanovic July 9, 2018, 5:41 AM EDT When Croatian defender Domagoj Vida shouted “Glory to Ukraine” in an online video message after his team defeated Russia in the...
View ArticleThe Russian bots are back — and now they’re fueling the #WalkAway propaganda...
A little more than a year ago, I posted and pinned the following predictive tweet: “Get ready. A year from right now we’ll be up to our asses in Russian fake news, malware, hacks, mayhem aimed at the...
View ArticleRussian ‘Novichok’ Beer Has Some Belarusian Drinkers Hopping Mad
July 10, 2018 16:20 GMT Carl Schreck Ihar Karney A kerfuffle is brewing in Belarus after a Russian beer named for the nerve agent that British authorities say was used to poison a Russian ex-spy hit...
View ArticlePutin’s Halo? Russian Artist Fires Back Against Online Ridicule
July 08, 2018 13:57 GMT Yelizaveta Mayetnaya Robert Coalson TULA, Russia — The vision that came to Russian artist Aleksandr Nemtsov in 2012 has gone viral six years later for all the wrong reasons. One...
View ArticleMeet Boris Stomakhin, Russia’s Longest-Serving ‘Hate-Speech’ Prisoner
‘Only For Thoughtcrime’: Meet Boris Stomakhin, Russia’s Longest-Serving ‘Hate-Speech’ Prisoner July 06, 2018 08:38 GMT Sergei Vilkov Carl Schreck Boris Stomakhin has spent more than a decade testing...
View ArticleRussia Wants to Recruit Volunteer Internet Censors
Russia’s attempts to block websites used for voicing dissent, opposition and other banned behaviors is taking yet another step in its efforts to suppress free speech. All in the name of national...
View ArticleU.S. GOP Senator Blasts Putin, Russia’s ‘Mafia’ Government
July 09, 2018 22:32 GMT RFE/RL WASHINGTON — A U.S. senator who traveled to Russia with a Republican congressional delegation last week said President Vladimir Putin could not be trusted and likened...
View ArticleGreece expels Russian diplomats
VASSILIS NEDOS Diplomacy The Greek government has decided to expel two Russian diplomats, and ban the entry into Greece of two more, accusing them of intrusion into domestic affairs and illegal acts...
View ArticleA U.S. senator worries that Mail.ru might be the next ‘Cambridge Analytica...
Apologies, Senator Warner, but the two-week extension that mail.ru received, allowed them to download billions of more datapoints of Facebook users and build a fairly comprehensive database of users,...
View ArticleRussia Accuses US Of Hybrid Warfare
RIA Novosti is a state-operated domestic Russian-language news agency and published this piece today. That Russian General of the Army Sergey Shoigu says this in a state-operated paper is tantamount to...
View ArticleDon’t Call Us Information Warriors
US government-funded channels like “Current Time” face a test in the age of Putin and Trump FEATURE Eduard Saakashvili Washington, D.C. 11 Jul 2018 Cufflinks glinting on his wrists, anchor Roman...
View ArticleUkraine’s Draft Law 6688: Internet Suppression, Censorship, or Security?
Is Ukraine going the way of Russia, suppressing free speech, enforcing censorship, or is it attempting to ensure national security with Draft Law 6688? It is not necessarily how the law is written in...
View ArticleWill Russia Ever Accept Blame?
In a separate discussion, today, on Facebook, I asked if Russia could ever accept blame for anything it has once denied. Paul Roderick Gregory says “no”, it would shatter the alt-reality it has so...
View ArticleSUMMIT DISINFO TARGETS LATVIA
AUTHOR: Anna Ūdre The number of fake news stories coming out of Russia appears to be on the rise. One could wonder if this coincides with the 2018 World Cup in Russia, perhaps being used as cover....
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