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Russia Threw Everything at Moldova 2025 Election and Still Lost
Vote-buying, deepfaked officials, fake-page armies and AI avatars: Russia threw its whole toolkit at Moldova’s 2025 election. The pro-EU party still won an outright majority.
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Leaked Files Expose the Firm Running Russia’s “Cognitive Strikes”
Leaked files expose the Social Design Agency, the firm behind Doppelganger, planning “cognitive strikes” and a pig-head attack on Paris mosques. New detail on a known operation.
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Russia’s managed Duma election, and the fraud it blamed on everyone else
The election delivered what it was built to deliver: a supermajority, a war-veteran cohort inside parliament, and a leadership able to present the result as popular will. What changed is the confidence of the messaging around it. Moscow no longer merely defends its own vote; it goes on the offensive against the legitimacy of…
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The Germs of “Russian World”. Version 2.0
At the beginning of December 2022, TEXTY published the material entitled “The Germs of “Russian World” — one of our most elaborate and important projects of the year. The study offered a comprehensive insight into the people and organizations that support Russia and its policy in various forms in 19 countries of Europe. We…
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Days Before Slovakia Voted, a Fake Recording Went Viral. The Rules Meant Almost No One Could Answer It
Two days before Slovakia’s 2023 election, AI-faked audio of a party leader and a journalist went viral inside the silence period. Why the timing made it so hard to rebut.
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The Irony of the Kremlin’s Sudden Concern for Media Freedom in Serbia
The current narrative, which is being propagated by Russian-influence channels, aims to portray Serbia as a nation in which media pluralism is being systematically suppressed, particularly through the expansion of state-linked companies like Telekom Srbija. While some of the underlying concerns are legitimate and Serbia does genuinely have media problems involving political pressure, concentrated…
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Storm-1516 turns its fabrications on Paris and Berlin
As Washington’s support for Kyiv collapsed through 2025, a Russian influence operation run partly through a fugitive American former policeman moved its forged smears and staged witnesses onto France and Germany.
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How Russian Influence Actors Manufactured a 2024 Election Fraud Claim in Georgia
A 20-second clip took hours to go viral and a joint FBI-ODNI-CISA statement to formally trace back to Moscow.
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How Russia Validated Kazakhstan’s Unproven Color-Revolution Narrative to Justify Military Intervention
Putin sent troops to crush unrest he called a foreign plot — years later, no evidence of foreign terrorists has ever surfaced.
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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.