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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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How a Coordinated TikTok Campaign Pushed an Unknown Candidate to the Front of Romania’s Presidential Race
A candidate polling near zero won the first round, a declassified intelligence file blamed a coordinated network, and for the first time in the post-communist era a European country threw out a national vote over foreign interference.
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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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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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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.