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Sputnik, RT, and a Referendum: How Russian State Media Amplified Spain’s Catalonia Crisis
Moscow had no stake in Catalan independence — the point was to make the European Union look like it was cracking apart from the inside.
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How the Kremlin Responded to Being Named in Alexei Navalny’s Novichok Poisoning
A joint investigative team traced FSB operatives across dozens of overlapping flights with their target — and the Kremlin’s answer was to call the world’s most detailed poisoning investigation ever published “insulting.”
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The Burisma Tapes: How a Kremlin-Linked Lawmaker Manufactured a Corruption Narrative Ahead of the 2020 Election
A U.S. Treasury-sanctioned Russian agent released selectively framed phone recordings that traveled from a Kyiv press conference into the heart of the American election.
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The Sputnik V Playbook: How Russian State Media and a Hidden PR Firm Smeared Western COVID-19 Vaccines
A state vaccine-promotion effort quietly merged with a covert influencer-payment scheme, producing one of the most sustained health disinformation campaigns of the pandemic.
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Vrbětice: How the GRU Blew Up a Czech Arms Depot and Then Called the Evidence a Fake
A seven-year-old sabotage operation, once filed away as an industrial accident, forced the largest wave of diplomatic expulsions in Czech history — and showcased Moscow’s standard response to being caught: deny, expel, deflect.
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How Russian-Linked Accounts and State Media Flooded the 2016 Brexit Referendum
Twitter’s own disclosures identified thousands of Internet Research Agency accounts pushing Brexit content, while RT and Sputnik out-reached the official Leave campaigns on social media.
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How Russian State TV Turned a Murdered Ex-Spy Into “Proof” of a Western Conspiracy
After polonium killed Alexander Litvinenko in a London hospital, Kremlin-controlled broadcasters spent over a decade accusing his own allies of the murder — a denial template later reused for the Skripal poisoning.
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How Russia Turned Real Ukrainian Health Labs Into a Global Bioweapons Conspiracy Theory
A claim invented by Russia’s Defense Ministry reached the UN Security Council within days and was still being recycled by Russian state media years later.
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An influencer, a PR specialist and a bishop: Who are the latest EU-sanctioned disinformation actors?
The Council of the European Union added a further 10 individuals and one entity to its sanctions list on 15 June, accusing them of conducting hybrid manipulation and foreign interference activities on behalf of Russia.
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Storm-1516: How a GRU-Funded American Fugitive Built Russia’s Most Dangerous AI Disinformation Network
Operated by a former Florida deputy sheriff now living in Moscow, Storm-1516 deployed AI-generated deepfakes and 171 fake news sites to target Western elections — racking up 67 million views and reaching a sitting U.S. Vice President.