NovoRossiya Says MH17 “lost due to unknown causes”
Parody account, Novorossiya PR. #Novorossiya mourns #MH17 victims, which was lost due to unknown causes. pic.twitter.com/GGRVXBwK9g — Novorossiya PR (@Novorossiya_PR) July 17, 2016 Two years later and...
View ArticleMore Russian tanks and Grad systems deployed to Donbas
A column of Pro-Russian rebel tanks prepare to move from the front line near Oleksandrivka, Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Oct. 3, 2015 (AP Photo) Kremlin continues to send military equipment to...
View ArticleRussian Officer Captured In Ukraine
Ukraine claims one more evidence of Russia’s presence in Donbas as the soldiers from the 54th Brigade captured a Russian militant, lieutenant Alexei Sedikov, who had confirmed Russian-backed separatist...
View ArticleRussia’s FSB Detains Top Moscow Investigators
The headquarters of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB, formerly the KGB) in downtown Moscow. (file photo) By RFE/RL July 19, 2016 Russia’s main domestic security agency has opened a criminal...
View ArticleSoviet Sexual Repression Continues to Cast a Dark Shadow on Russia Today,...
Andrei Piontkovsky Staunton, VA, July 18, 2016 – Sexual repression, which was an inherent and inalienable part of the Soviet system of control, continues to cast a shadow on Russia today, according to...
View ArticleThe Art of Headlines in the Context of Russian Information War
By vasgri | on 07/12/2016 Anthony Lee Iacocca once hit the mark in his saying about headlines: “Since most people don’t read the whole story unless they’re especially interested in the subject, for the...
View ArticleLinkedIn, Scarlett: Your Behavior Is Opprobrious. Pro-Russian?
I labeled LinkedIn’s behavior as reprehensible, or deserving of condemnation, at first. Reprehensible was not severe enough, so I used the word opprobrious, which means outrageously shameful or...
View ArticleDoping Documentary Is Blatant Russian Propaganda
The Doping Trap, which appeared on Russian state TV, tried discrediting WADA probe and failed By Joe Lemire Jul 19, 2016 In advance of the damning McLaren Report, Russia’s Match TV—a state-owned sports...
View ArticleProminent journalist killed in car bombing in Ukraine
FILE – In this Oct. 18, 2004, file photo, journalist Pavel Sheremet speaks at a hospital in Minsk, Belarus, after he was found badly beaten. The 44-year old Belarusian-born prominent journalist was...
View ArticleNobody Wants to Live in the Mean New Russia
Mar. 25 2015 — 18:24 By Ivan Sukhov Many people who were either born in Russia or have lived here for many years are feeling that it is now time to leave. And often their reasons have nothing to do...
View ArticleWhy Putin Won’t Admit the Truth About Doping
“To his voters, Russia must remain a great country suffering from Western injustice. It can’t be represented by a gang of crooks passing bottles of urine through a mouse hole.” Putin needs Russia to...
View ArticleIs Trump Pro-Russian?
By all appearances Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for the President of the United States, is pro-Russian. That’s not a good thing. Others have noticed. Trump, Deferring To Putin, Deleted GOP...
View ArticlePutin propaganda rejects the possibility of rational thought, Shekhtman says
Digital photo manipulation by Sarolta Ban (Image: polyvore.com) By Paul Goble 2016/07/20 Vladimir Putin’s propaganda is intended to destroy “all the rules of rational thought” just as those who support...
View ArticleI Know What You Are, But What Am I?!
Russian opposition figure Roman Dobrokhotov summed it all up rather succinctly in a tweet yesterday: “The cops are afraid of the prosecutors, the prosecutors are afraid of the Investigative Committee,...
View ArticleThere are 702 Russian tanks in the Donbas
There are more Russian tanks in the temporarily occupied territories than in Germany and the UK combined. This was said on-air on Channel 5 by the representative of Ukraine in the Minsk talks, Yevhen...
View ArticleRussian Propaganda Coordination Scheme Hacked: Tasks, Payments, Reports
This investigation is based on an analysis of private data and supplemented with open source intelligence (OSINT). It reveals a scheme of coordination of Russian information saboteurs who commit...
View ArticleRussian Strategic Deterrence
Kristin Ven Bruusgaard To cite this article: Kristin Ven Bruusgaard (2016) Russian Strategic Deterrence, Survival, 58:4, 7-26, DOI: 10.1080/00396338.2016.1207945 To link to this article:...
View ArticleKremlin trolls target the Magnitsky Act and Khodorkovsky
Donate & Support The Fight Against Corruption OCCRP on Android OCCRP on iPhone Kremlin trolls target the Magnitsky Act and Khodorkovsky Reporters for OCCRP have found evidence that pro-Kremlin...
View ArticleKaraganov Shows Pathology of Putin’s Realism
Alexander J. Motyl Sometimes, Vladimir Putin snarls and reveals his true self to the world. More often than not, one of his minions shows his teeth. This time, it was Sergey Karaganov’s turn to...
View ArticleRussia Bombed Base in Syria Used by U.S.
Open season on Russians yet? </end editorial> An outpost near the Jordanian border that is used by U.S. and British special forces was hit by the airstrikes last month By ADAM ENTOUS and GORDON...
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