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Operation Denver: the AIDS forgery that wrote the manual for narrative laundering
Four decades on, the KGB and Stasi campaign that blamed AIDS on a Pentagon laboratory still describes, step for step, how a false claim is seeded, laundered abroad and re-imported as news.
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Russia’s Shadow Fleet and the Contested Fight Over Who Is Cutting the Baltic Sea’s Cables
Eleven severed cables, one seized tanker loaded with surveillance gear, and a Kremlin spokesman who calls every accusation “absurd” — even as some Western officials now say the damage may just be accidents.
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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.
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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.