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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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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 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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Ballots, Bribes, and Balkan Boot Camps: Russia’s Multi-Front Campaign to Derail Moldova’s EU Referendum
Russia spent an estimated 200 million euros — combining a $39 million vote-buying network, paramilitary training camps in Bosnia and Serbia, and AI-driven disinformation — in a failed bid to stop Moldova from choosing Europe in October 2024.
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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.
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Russian TikTok Influencers Are Being Paid to Spread Kremlin Propaganda
Numerous campaigns have been coordinated in a secret Telegram channel that directs these influencers on what to say, where to capture videos, what hashtags to use, and when exactly to post the video.