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How a Russian Operation Tried to Scare the World Away From Paris 2024
Russia’s Storm-1679 built a fake Tom Cruise documentary, forged CIA and DGSI warnings, and spoofed newscasts to scare people away from the Paris 2024 Olympics. What it achieved.
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Investigation: Russia recruits young “agents” on social media
Russia uses groups and platforms on social media to recruit young people to carry out criminal assignments in return for payment. All text in the image above is fabricated and is for illustrative purposes only.
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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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Fake BBC and ARD videos flood Saxony-Anhalt before the September vote
Days before a German state election the AfD is favoured to win, Operation Matryoshka has laundered fabricated broadcasts through trusted Western logos to smear every party except the two friendliest to Moscow.
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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.