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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.
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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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How Russian State TV Turned a Murdered Ex-Spy Into “Proof” of a Western Conspiracy
After polonium killed Alexander Litvinenko in a London hospital, Kremlin-controlled broadcasters spent over a decade accusing his own allies of the murder — a denial template later reused for the Skripal poisoning.