Zones de conflits

In Belarus, human rights defenders continue much-needed work despite intense repression by the Lukashenka regime that makes false claims of ‘Western sabotage’. On 7 October, the Norwegian Nobel Committee honoured Ales Bialiatski, Memorial, and Ukraine’s […]

After weeks of having to gloss over set-backs on the frontlines in Ukraine, Russian state outlets have found a perverse joy in showcasing indiscriminate drone and missile strikes against Ukrainian civilian infrastructure. When Russia attacks, […]

When an explosion rocked the Crimean Bridge, which connects the illegally annexed Crimean Peninsula to Russia. Pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets openly call for revenge and retaliation in the aftermath of the Bridge explosion. Source — EUvsDiSiNFO — […]

Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties (CCL) has been painstakingly documenting crimes committed by Russian forces against Ukrainian civilians since Russia first invaded the country in 2014. The full-scale war of aggression launched by Russia in […]

Anna Politkovskaya was a prominent writer and journalist for Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian newspaper edited by 2021-Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov. Over time, Politkovskaya and Novaya Gazeta came under ever more frequent attacks from Russian authorities. […]

Putin’s illegal annexations announcement speech took us on a mind-bending ride into an alternative reality and his followers off the cliff with him. This week one of the central elements in the pro-Kremlin disinformation ecosystem […]

The gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea which together make up Nord Stream 1 and 2 have recently suffered sabotage. Deliberate explosions discovered on 26 September in international waters took place in the exclusive economic zones of […]

Following Putin’s toxic and disinformation-laden speech last week, the main topics that have been reverberating through the pro-Kremlin disinformation ecosystem are ‘partial mobilisation’ and the sham ‘referendums’, or obscenities, that took place in temporarily Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine. […]

The past ten days have been very busy for Russian disinformation outlets and their amplifiers throughout the pro-Kremlin disinformation ecosystem. On 19 September, the puppet officials of the Russian-occupied territories in the Luhansk, Kherson, and […]

Watching Russian state TV is increasingly like entering a parallel world. The more tense the topics become – the referendums, military mobilisation, situation on the battlefield – the more one-sided the coverage gets and the […]