Items tagged with: Information war

Since 2014, disinformation has played a key role in Russia’s hybrid attack on Ukraine. Ukrainian audiences are now a key battleground in the international fight to improve media literacy and defend against the dangers of fake news

StopFake’s Margo Gontar has seen Russian information warfare up close for the last three years. As Moscow’s hybrid war against the outside world continues to expand, she shares her insights into the principles underpinning the Kremlin’s global...

The Kremlin obsession with phantom fascists reflects modern Russia’s failure to create a coherent post-Soviet identity

Many of the Russian tactics currently being deployed to destabilize the EU were first honed in Ukraine but European leaders remain stubbornly slow to appreciate the scale of the danger they face

For the past three years, Russia has been waging an increasingly audacious hybrid war against the entire Western world. The end goals are to fatally undermine Western institutions and reverse the verdict of the Cold War. So far, the Kremlin is...

Russia has convinced many international observers that post-Maidan Ukraine is under the control of nationalist extremists but there is actually surprisingly little evidence to support this alarmist narrative. In reality, Far Right parties enjoy...

The prominence of media disinformation in Russia’s hybrid war against Ukraine underlines the point that fake news is a weapon of mass destruction

Russia’s hybrid war tactics in Ukraine depend on a smokescreen of ambiguity. All too often, the international media has been happy to oblige

German journalists have been in the frontlines of the information war that has raged between Russia and the Western world since Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution

Russian hybrid tactics have changed the face of modern warfare and transformed international war reporters into unwitting accomplices - new forms of warfare require a new lexicon to bring clarity to the 21st century battlefield

Russia's ongoing information attack on Ukraine comes at a time when the digital revolution is undermining the sanctity of facts among global audiences. Ukraine's best chance of fighting back may be to focus on emotional engagement rather than...

Ukraine will host the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest after Jamala wins in Stockholm with powerful and politically potent song highlighting plight of Crimean Tatars

Ukrainian singer Jamala’s haunting ballad ‘1944’ draws international attention to plight of Tatar minority in Russian-occupied Crimea as Putin’s hybrid war casts shadow over Europe’s famously kitsch annual song contest

American journalist and Kremlin fake debunker Julia Davis says Russians don't necessarily believe the disinformation they are fed by official Russian media but regard Western media with equal distrust

Ukraine’s Minister of Information Policy Yuriy Stets says EU allies are unprepared for Kremlin hybrid war and warns that recent Russian information attack in Germany is just the beginning

Berlin ‘migrant rape’ scandal highlights destabilization threat posed by Kremlin media in Europe and North America

The man behind the Bellingcat citizen journalist group says Russia has lost all credibility thanks to relentless Kremlin disinformation tactics over MH17 and Ukraine war

Spiegel Online Moscow correspondent Benjamin Bidder reflects on the journalistic challenges presented by infowar raging over Ukraine

Ukraine was initially overwhelmed by the scale of the Russian information offensive but personalities like Popova are finally helping the country to fight back