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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.