Publications

2 years ago

Defense of Soledar, Bakhmut like a horror movie

Soldiers of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade compare the battles for Soledar and Bakhmut to zombie movies

2 years ago

Why May 1 not a "Soviet" holiday, but quite relevant in our time

Programmers, dentists, and even contract soldiers are all hired personnel and need to have their rights protected, just like the medieval "wool scalpers."

2 years ago

Russian propaganda: Military corps being formed in Poland to join war efforts in Ukraine

The Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian Brigade was established back in 2014 but is not involved in the war raging in Ukraine

2 years ago

Uman: The location named War

Instead of a tourist forum in Uman, three days of mourning have been announced for those killed in Russia’s missile attack

2 years ago

Russian propaganda in Balkan region: Pro-Kremlin narratives in local online media

The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security analyzed the publications of local online media in Countries of Balkan Region – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Slovenia based on the monitoring conducted by the Ukrainian social startup LetsData in January-February 2023 to find out the level of influence of Russian propaganda in the studied countries.

2 years ago

Artificial Intelligence, Metaverse, 5G…Seven major technological trends of 2023 in broadcasting

According to the results of the 100th NAB Show conference in Las Vegas.

2 years ago

Russian intelligence “Laundromat” for dirty money

Russian intelligence is not about a cold mind and a heart on fire, but about a paw that is constantly reaching for dirty money

2 years ago

Russian fake news: NGU commander allegedly orders that violators be shot dead at checkpoints

Russian propagandists have fabricated an order allegedly issued by a commander of one of military units in the National Guard of Ukraine (NGU)

2 years ago

Russians don’t want to learn from Chornobyl lessons

The accident at the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear power plant (ChNPP), which shocked the world on April 26, 1986, is one of the largest man-made disasters in the history of mankind. 

2 years ago

Advertising captivity and smear ads against Ukrainian counteroffensive

Since early March, Ukrainian netizens saw a variety of ads trying to influence their psycho-emotional state amid the ongoing war.

2 years ago

Religious deception: what Russian propaganda portrays as 'satanic rites' by Orthodox Church of Ukraine

Russia continues to discredit the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

2 years ago

World news agencies and Russian narratives. What words should not be used in covering war

Even a year into Russia’s barbaric aggression, some leading media platforms in the West sometimes use certain vocabulary which distorts reality, misleads their multimillion audience, and legalizes Russian propaganda in the global information space.  

2 years ago

Easter under fire

Residents of Orikhiv, a town in Zaporizhzhia region which is constantly under Russian fire, will celebrate Easter at a Point of Invincibility

2 years ago

Russian narratives in India, Indonesia's online media

The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security analyzed the publications of online media in India and Indonesia based on the monitoring conducted by the Ukrainian social startup LetsData in February 2023 to find out the level of influence of Russian propaganda in the studied countries. 

2 years ago

Easter manipulation: Americans paint potatoes instead of eggs

For the Americans – a joke and entertainment, for Russian propaganda – a reason to report the “economic crisis” in the USA

2 years ago

Brutal executions as terror tool: Why Russian soldiers follow ISIS patterns

The Russian military brutally executed a Ukrainian prisoner, beheading him with a knife. The video of the atrocity first appeared on social media on the evening of April 11 before it was actively spread by pro-Kremlin Telegram channels and social media accounts.

2 years ago

Russian fake about Ukrainian school: In Lviv, children learn Poland’s anthem by heart

A forged parents’ chat and an open history lesson about Polish symbols for the "administration"

2 years ago

Religious fake: Russians fabricate ‘arson attack’ on UOC MP church

Russian propagandists have passed off a 10-year-old video taken in Russia’s Astrakhan region as a new video from Ukraine’s Mykolaiv region

2 years ago

AI and disinformation: Opportunities and risks amid war

The attention of mankind today is focused on artificial intelligence (AI). OpenAI providing free access to the ChatGPT chatbot and publication on social networks of doctored images created with the help of Midjorney and other neural networks made this tool closer than ever to ordinary netizens. 

2 years ago

Russian fake news: many Ukrainians going abroad after Putin's statement about nuclear weapons in Belarus

Propagandists invented statements by Ukraine's State Statistics Service and State Border Guard Service and took MP Arakhamia's words out of context

2 years ago

Why are we fighting for Bakhmut? How Russian propaganda is trying to demoralize Ukrainians

Information attacks are an integral part of modern warfare. The enemy systemically attempts to hamper motivation of both the military and civilian population.

2 years ago

Russia’s updated foreign policy concept: deep state changing its camouflage

War is peace, as per Orwell, or what the varnished image of “peace a la Russe" is about

2 years ago

“Russian world” as preparation for next war: How to stop “bloody domino”

In the international arena, Russia is actively trying to promote the idea of the need for peaceful negotiations for a diplomatic settlement of the conflict. 

2 years ago

“Evil Nazis against woman and child”: Russian propagandists renounce their own fake targeting Ukraine Army

Russian propaganda pundits have been spinning a staged video showing what they said was a “conflict between the Ukrainian military and a woman accompanying a child.” 

2 years ago

UN Commission’s report as an important step toward bringing Putin’s criminals to justice

The warrant for Vladimir Putin’s arrest, issued by the International Criminal Court, overshadowed the report of the UN Independent International Commission on Inquiry in the media field.

2 years ago

Religious fake: Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, UOC (MP), and photo manipulation

Russian propaganda passed off the gathering of believers for the divine liturgy as a protest rally

2 years ago

Russian propagandists imitate Franc Tireur’s cover page

Journalists from the French publication, Franc Tireur, often criticize Russia and Putin for the crime of aggression against Ukraine

2 years ago

Russians must understand the West will not back down and will stand until the very end — Pomerantsev

The Russian political and military elite, as well as propagandists, both senior and ordinary workers, should feel insecure and aware that responsibility is inevitable. 

2 years ago

The path of Putin and Lvova-Belova to ICC's arrest warrants

An analysis of the non-obvious details of the Kremlin's actions regarding the abduction of Ukrainian children

2 years ago

Russian meddling in media space, efforts to undermine Europe’s cybersecurity

Bots, coordinated inauthentic behavior originating from Russia, espionage attempts by Russian hackers targeting Ukraine’s allies, cyberattacks, and mass creation of resources with the sole aim of spreading disinformation— Russia resorts to any means to penetrate Europe’s information space.