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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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Russia’s Troll Operation That Dressed Itself Up as a Newsroom
A Moscow “news agency” recruits African influencers to launder Kremlin talking points and turn Sahel anger at France into support for Russia. What ISD and VIGINUM found.
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The Russian Network That Stopped Chasing Readers and Started Feeding the Machines
Russia’s Pravda network floods the web with pro-Kremlin content aimed not at readers but at AI models and Wikipedia. How VIGINUM and others mapped “LLM grooming.”