Russia’s Murder, Inc.’s long, dark history
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday Russia is not planning to create a military alliance with China, despite Moscow helping Beijing build a missile attack warning system, Reuters reports… Read more »
Tag: Sergei Skripal
AI, big data and democracy’s future: Misinformation, echo chambers & targeted propaganda?
While digital transformation has enriched societal discourse, it has also led to an increase of “misinformation, echo chambers and targeted propaganda” and provided authoritarian states with new means of surveillance… Read more »
Digital Resilience: Russia beating the West ‘hands down’ in information warfare
When it comes to information warfare, Russia is beating the West hands down, says a leading analyst. The disinformation focused on the Skripal poisoning has many similarities with the Kremlin… Read more »
Russia is winning Skripal information war
As the investigation over the Skripal poisoning continues, the Kremlin is waging a full–scale information war to promote stories acquitting the Russian government of any involvement in the incident. The low-cost, high-impact nature of social… Read more »
How to really punish Putin’s kleptocracy
It is often said that Russia is a competitor to western democracy. But that is misleading. Its regime is a model only to other budding kleptocrats, the FT’s Edward Luce… Read more »
West & Russia on brink of new Cold War?
There’s a fundamental flaw in the Russian propaganda narrative about the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the U.K. earlier this month, Bloomberg’s Leonid Bershidsky writes:… Read more »