
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.

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.

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.

Putin sent troops to crush unrest he called a foreign plot — years later, no evidence of foreign terrorists has ever surfaced.

Moscow had no stake in Catalan independence — the point was to make the European Union look like it was cracking apart from the inside.

A joint investigative team traced FSB operatives across dozens of overlapping flights with their target — and the Kremlin’s answer was to call the world’s most detailed poisoning investigation ever published “insulting.”

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.

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.