We are continuing our rubric “Experts on Disinfo” with Mattia Nelles, Program Director of Zentrum Liberale Moderne, Editor of Ukraine verstehen. In this issue he will talk about: Anti-German narratives in Navalny case Reaction of German government to Russian disinfo campaign Nord Stream 2 prospects in the aftermath of Navalny case More
Liubov Tsybulska, Head of HWAG interviewed Veranika Laputska, Co-founder and Research Fellow at Eurasian States in Transition – EAST Research Center, Rethink.CEE fellow at the The German Marshall Fund of the United States about BelarusProtest in a special edition of “Experts on Disinfo”. In this interview you will hear: How #Belarusians manage to self-organize during […] More
We are continuing our rubric “Experts on Disinfo” with Dmitri Teperik, Chief Executive Programme Director of Resilient Ukraine of ICDS-International Centre for Defence and Security: In this issue he will talk about: Estonia’s overall reaction to Kremlin’s attempts at revisionist history Attacks on NATO in Estonia due to COVID-19 Kremlin’s message behind Kavkaz-2020 military exercise More
We are continuing our rubric “Experts on Disinfo” with Maksym Sijer, Research Officer at the Fundacja INFO OPS Polska. In this issue he will talk about: Putin’s recent article in National Interest Kremlin rewriting Polish history Our take on the aforementioned article can be found here: On Putin’s Vision of WWII Lessons More
We are continuing our rubric “Experts on Disinfo” and we are very exited and honored to introduce Edward Lucas, British Columnist and Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis. In this issue he will talk about: Russophobia as an instrument against criticism of the regime Liberalization of Russian youth Underestimated Chinese threat More
There are still not enough people, who would be aware of the threat, who would be vaccinated against what might be happening in the disinformation sphere. This quote from Jakub Kalensky, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, in relation to the “Four lines of defense against disinformation” as well as comments on the political actors […] More
In Russian-occupied Abkhazia they held so called “presidential elections” at the end of March, allowing mass gatherings and putting the lives of citizens in danger. This quote from Eto Buziashvili, Open source analyst at the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab, in relation to Kremlin-appointed “authorities” violating safety measures in occupied Georgian territories as well as comments on […] More
Currently we actually have probably the largest or the highest escalation from the Russian government towards the Czech Republic in the last 30 years. We are introducing our new rubric “Experts on Disinfo”, where we ask our esteemed colleagues questions about the recent trends in the field.This quote comes from Jakub Janda, Executive Director of […] More
Positive narratives about Ukraine are an effective response to Russian disinformation. The experts claimed this during a discussion within the #UkraineExplained project at the Press Center of Ukraine Crisis Media Center. The event was dedicated to discussing the challenges and opportunities the Ukrainian authorities and civil society face in developing a truthful, fact-based positive communication […] More
Margarita Simonyan Victor Litovkin Alexander Kazakov Margarita Simonyan, the Head of Russia’s state-funded media outlet RT, promotes the Russian government’s propaganda narrative in the Russian Disinfo Digest of 21/06 by conjuring up assassination stories to convince the Russian people that Putin has a red line, despite these responses being mere fantasies. According to Simonyan, Putin’s […] More
Ukraine Crisis Media Center has launched a free online course “Disinformation: Types, Tools and Countermeasures” for all those willing to learn how to recognize disinformation and become more resilient to it. The course will be useful for both newbies and more experienced learners, especially for journalists, students (in particular, in the fields of political science, […] More
On September 9, the press center of Ukraine Crisis Media Center hosted a presentation of the online course “Disinformation: types, tools and countermeasures”. The course was developed by the main experts at UCMC, Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security, StopFake, and Euromaidan Press and is already available on the Prometheus platform. One of the […] More
