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Putin Loses Handle On Military Inspection
The look on Gerasimov’s face is classic. “Oh chit!.” During engagements with Russian trolls, their favorite tool is to say how high-tech the Russian military is. I worry about the quality. In this...
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German Intelligence Agency Warns Of Russian Cyber Sabotage
BERLIN (AP) — The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency warned Friday that Russia is engaged in electronic espionage efforts and appears willing to conduct cyber sabotage against critical...
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Russia Should Be Barred From Rio Olympics
Sochi Gold Medal, worth nothing in Russia I would not normally blog such an article if it were not for the fact that Russia uses the Olympic Games almost solely for propaganda purposes. If this were...
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KGB Active Measures and Russian Hybrid Warfare: A Brief Comparison
By Alan Malcher MA May 14, 2016 This brief introduction argues that what is commonly referred to as Russian Hybrid Warfare is little more than a remodeled and modern version of KGB active measures: the...
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Trump Putin kiss
People walk past a mural on a restaurant wall depicting US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin greeting each other with a kiss in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius Filed...
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“Soft Power”: what the US does
Photos from the site first-americans.spb.ru Please bear witness to Russian idiocy. “…the media actually control the opinions”. If the US media knew how to control public opinion or anyone’s opinion...
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How do people see Russia? Eurovision gave one answer
I watched Eurovision with interest, the show of what it means to be “Europe” was quite evident. The overall tone was very inclusive. Of note, I found it interesting that it was in English. If you...
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New climate of fear makes Russian polls ever less reliable, Moscow...
Putin’s promise of “STABILITY” crumbling and crushing its original supporters (Image: Alexey Merinov, mk.ru) This is especially worrisome as there are very few places in Russia allowed to do polling...
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Anatomy Of A Propaganda Blitz. “Demonization and Destruction of Establishment...
My favorite Russian proxy site, GlobalResearch.ca released a steaming pile of… a useful guide to identifying Western propaganda. Incidentally, this article was originally published by Media Lens,...
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Russia’s Eurovision Entry Sergey Has A Secret Porn Past
You really can’t make this stuff up. Another embarrassment for Russia, where porn is an embarrassing secret. Mr. Putin this appears to be yet another Russian embarrassment. Not even your KGB could make...
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Russian Nuclear Propaganda Paranoia
Russia is alarmed by the US Missile Defense Shield being installed in Europe. U.S. launches long-awaited European missile defense shield. Call me naive but I just couldn’t understand why Russia feared...
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The cyberspace war: propaganda and trolling as warfare tools
Written by Jessikka Aro Open Access Article First Online: 10 May 2016 DOI: 10.1007/s12290-016-0395-5 Abstract Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime has taken control of the traditional media in...
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Propaganda and Counter-terrorism: Strategies for Global Change – Outstanding!
I owe you, gentle readers, a full-blown book review on “Propaganda and Counter-terrorism: Strategies for Global Change” by Dr. Emma Briant. The book is so good it deserves a very detailed review, and...
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Russia: The Next Slice of Salami
May 17, 2016 By Maxim Trudolyubov @russiafiles Living in Russia and being involved in politics (or just writing about it or worrying about it) creates an odd sense of time. Political time in Russia...
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Russia: Cultural Cringe
Cultural Cringe Posted on May 18, 2016 Ilya Klishin There’s a specific genre of Russian journalism that has no counterpart in the West – it essentially involves asking foreigners who live in Russia to...
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12 newsrooms in 5 years How the Russian authorities decimated a news industry
Photo: Anton Karliner / Meduza On May 13, 2016, the biggest independent news company in Russia fired its top three editors. According to multiple inside sources, the dismissals were the result of...
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How I became The Guardian
by Jim Kovpak on the https://nobsrussia.com website. Life has been full of surprises lately. Yesterday I found out I was published in The Guardian. Today I learned that I am The Guardian. In fact, I am...
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The Chinese government fakes nearly 450 million social media comments a year....
A security guard at the Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP) By Henry Farrell May 19, 2016 at 2:22 PM Internet researchers have long known that the Chinese government...
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The Next Phase of Russian Information Warfare (by Keir Giles)
The challenge of Russian information warfare is not a static situation, but a developing process. The Russian approach evolves, develops, adapts, and just like other Russian operational approaches,...
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Russia Disinformation Digest – 20 May 2016
Analysis: Winning with songs Polls (I): Revealing Russian perceptions Analysis: Red lines Response: EU assistance in Georgia Polls (II): More enemies, please Friday fun: Computer games galore...
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