Is Russia ‘Weaponizing Refugees’ To Advance Its Geopolitical Goals?
Syrians fleeing the northern embattled city of Aleppo are pictured in a camp near the Turkish border. By Ron Synovitz February 19, 2016 Is Russia trying to “weaponize” refugees from Syria by using...
View ArticleWith woman running S. Korea, North’s insults turn sexist
South Korean President Park Geun-hye delivers a speech at the National Assembly in Seoul on Feb. 16, 2016. North Korea’s description of Park as an “old, insane bitch” destined for violent death may...
View ArticleRussia’s Pernicious Hybrid War Against Ukraine
A protester hurls a stone at a regional branch of Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, during an anti-Russia protest in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 20. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich) February 23, 2016 In recent...
View ArticleRussia’s Social Media vs. the Kremlin’s Domestic Information War
Andreas Umland The West has only recently started to understand how deeply public opinion in the Russian Federation has become infected with rabidly anti-Western conspiratorial and Manichean...
View ArticleDear Dr. Stephen Cohen, Stick To The Facts, You’re Wrong
Russia’s favorite Western Russophile, Dr. Stephen Cohen, was recently interviewed on Russia Insider and made a remarkable statement. Stephen Cohen: Not This Many Troops on Russia’s Border Since Hitler...
View ArticleU.S. looks to Facebook, private groups to battle online extremism
A member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) waves an ISIL flag in Raqqa, Syria on June 29, 2014 in a still image taken from video produced by the student group 7Strong....
View ArticleA Year After His Murder, The Specter of Nemtsov is Haunting Putin
Protests in Moscow and in the late opposition leader’s home town showed unprecedented public anger at Russia’s president.MOSCOW—If Boris Nemtsov could see people marching in his memory in dozens of...
View ArticleNadiya Savchenko powerful speech in Russian court: Full text
Former Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, charged with complicity in the murder of Russian journalists, Rostov Region, Russia, Feb. 1, 2016 (Getty Images) “They will sentence me posthumously” – Nadiya...
View Article‘New Cold War’ And Policies To Confront Russia
The Kremlin, Moscow, Russia. At last, a multi-pronged, multi-faceted approach to Russia. The third option includes a multiple layered approach to information warfare against Russia. Too often articles,...
View ArticleRT Switches Thumbs
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Sputnik / Reuters Reminiscing back to my Special Forces days, we had an especially distasteful description for anyone prone to committing multiple errors. Switching...
View ArticleGorbachev Sings And Denounces New Stalinism
CROONING TO THE MASSES 03.07.16 12:03 AM ET By ANNA NEMTSOVA Who knew the Soviet Union’s great reformer, who just turned 85, could sing? Watch a (surprisingly smooth) sampling of his talent. MOSCOW —...
View ArticleDo you suffer from Russophobia? The Kremlin thinks you might.
I am not a Russophobe, I am actually a Russophile. When I was in the University, I studied Russian history and the Russian language. I was in ROTC at the time and I wanted to study our ‘enemy’,...
View ArticleChina Declares Miss World Canada Persona Non Grata, TBT
The below article and the accompanying video are compelling evidence that China seeks to not only protect their image in China, but China also seeks to suppress evidence diminishing China’s reputation...
View ArticleRussia Is Giving up on Its Tragedies—and on Itself
Source: yeniasya.com.tr Russian suppression of bad domestic news is supposedly preferred by the Russian people, but paints an overly rosy and untrue picture. Such Russian manipulations of public...
View ArticleHow China Won the War Against Western Media
Tea Leaf Nation The one-two punch of censorship plus propaganda has discredited Western journalism in the eyes of many Chinese. BY BETHANY ALLEN-EBRAHIMIAN MARCH 4, 2016 BETHANY.ALLEN @BETHANYALLENEBR...
View ArticleGrowing the next generation of Russia experts
The author brings up some very valid arguments but misses one major point. Russia is the world’s leading advocate and perpetrator of Information Warfare. For the past 2+ years, the world has been...
View ArticleDisinformation Review
Europe responsible for refugee crisis This week the pro-Kremlin media heighten their attention on European authorities. During the past days, leaders of the EU have been blamed for all that is wrong...
View ArticleBelieve It or Not, Russia Dislikes Relying on Military Contractors
All photos — RSB Group contractors. Photos from the RSB Group Website I refer to this article as another tool in the Russian Information Warfare toolbox. Information Warfare in support of Russian...
View ArticleSavchenko Gives Russian Court One Week For Sentencing
Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko raises her middle finger to the court in the southern Russian town of Donetsk, in an AFPTV video screengrab taken on March 9, 2016 (AFP Photo/Yury Maltsev)...
View ArticleUkrainian military intelligence identifies top Putin’s generals conducting...
Photo: Russian Armed Forces Major General Valerii Hryhorovych Asapov (Russian: Валерий Григорьевич Асапов), photographed while still being in the rank of a Colonel of AF RF, receives blessing from the...
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