Publications

3 years ago

Goodwill gesture: how Russia invents justifications for its losses and how mobilization can change things

Russian propaganda is spreading lies and silencing facts not only about personnel losses but also about strategic failures, hiding them from its people. 

3 years ago

Nuclear and gas blackmail: Russia trying to destabilize EU and US

The minions in the Kremlin know it: if this heating season goes well in the European countries, talks aiming to find a compromise with Russia will forever be off the world politics table. As it happens, the chances of such a scenario are pretty high. That’s why Russia is busting its guts to destabilize the situation in the EU and the US and incite people to revolt.

3 years ago

Russian disinformation flows into media space of Ukraine’s Western neighbours

The propaganda of the Russian schizofascist (as defined by the historian Timothy Snyder) regime continues its information attacks on Europe. First come the western neighbors of Ukraine, who know from their own bitter experience what Russia is.

3 years ago

How and why Russian propaganda “looks” for U.S. Biolabs in Ukraine and around the world

They search, they “find,” they investigate, they deny any refutations and refer to “blatant lies”  —  this is the principle of Russian propaganda regarding so-called “biolabs” in the world and, in particular, in Ukraine. 

3 years ago

Zelensky's address at UN General Assembly

Special tribunal should be created to punish Russia for crime of aggression against Ukraine

3 years ago

Lies, blackmail, and mobilization: Key points in statements of Russian war criminals

On the morning of September 21, the Kremlin did release Putin’s announced video address. The Russian dictator, as was predicted, promised to recognize the results of the so-called “referenda,” announced a partial mobilization to protect the “sovereignty and territorial integrity” of the RF, and once again resorted to nuclear blackmail. Subsequently, Russian Defence Minister Shoigu specified that 300,000 reservists would be mobilized. 

3 years ago

How propaganda of Putin’s regime cracked during Ukraine Army's counteroffensive

The first large-scale defeat of the Russian army in Kharkiv region naturally led to the defeats of Russian propaganda. Even propagandist Solovyov was forced to say: “there is a thought that we will lose the information war…” 

3 years ago

Russia’s war in online media: How Kremlin propaganda discredits Ukraine in Africa

In the online media of African countries, Russian narratives have been detected purposefully shifting responsibility for “all troubles” to Ukraine — the food crisis, the Russian war against Ukraine, shelling of civilians in Ukraine, etc. 

3 years ago

Nuremberg for Putin, or How to guarantee responsibility for war crimes in Ukraine

International justice plays the long game. And history proved it with the examples of Milosevic, Karadžić, Bashar Assad, Charles Taylor.

3 years ago

“Vote and lose.” Russia laying grounds for sham referenda in occupied areas

Having launched a full-scale invasion, Russia stopped even trying to hide its aggressive plans regarding Ukraine. 

3 years ago

From Pegov to Krasovsky. Disinfo watchdog collects dossiers on Russia's main "media criminals"

The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security, together with partners, has launched a series of publications “Russian Information Criminals.”

3 years ago

Prospects for running a military campaign in 2023: Ukraine’s perspective

How long the war could last and how can Ukraine win it

3 years ago

Ritual sacrifices and Youth Army: How Russian fascism exploits children

Using children in “adult games,” let alone involving them in war politics, is about breaking moral rules, .

3 years ago

Six months of the full-scale war: Ukraine’s 12 main victories on the information front

The history of Russia's information wars against Ukraine is not limited to the last eight years of hybrid aggression, which turned into a full-scale war on February 24. It is much longer.

3 years ago

What Italian, German, and French Online media tell about Russia’s war against Ukraine and what's the impact of Russian propaganda

Based on the monitoring run by the Ukrainian social startup LetsData in partnership with the Detector Media NGO, the Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security has analyzed the media landscape of Italy, Germany, and France from July 1 to 29 to find out the influence of Russian propaganda in these countries regarding coverage of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Publications containing references to Ukraine are collected in real-time in the original language and processed with the help of artificial intelligence components.

3 years ago

Kremlin propaganda in Europe and North America: how Russian narratives are reproduced in Western online media

The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security has analyzed how Russian narratives about Ukraine are reproduced in European and North American online media through the use of toxic vocabulary, the choice of information sources, and analysis of common narratives. 

3 years ago

Six months of the war: Russia's information support of hostilities

The Center for Strategic Communication has made a summary of key propaganda narratives of Russia which were promoted during the first six months of the full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war.

3 years ago

Threats of forcible naturalization of residents in Russian-occupied regions

Russian invaders brutally violate the laws and customs of war in Ukraine. One of the most egregious examples of them ignoring the norms of international law is the forcible issuance of Russian passports to the population of the occupied territories.

3 years ago

Who prohibits the display of Ukrainian flags in Hungary?

In his address on the Independence Day of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky noted that since the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we have understood who our real friends are, and who just keeps away from us.

3 years ago

‘Eyes’ of artillery on the approaches to Zaporizhzhia

We meet them at the positions, which are not far from one of the occupied settlements in Orikhiv District. The enemy is just three or four kilometers away from here.

3 years ago

Hellish August: Will the battle of Ukraine’s South become decisive?

August has a symbolic, perhaps even sacred meaning for Ukraine – Ukraine is celebrating its 31st Independence Day and passing the six-month mark of Putin's bloody war

3 years ago

“Special Operation” Goes as Planned, 330 Meters a Day: A Digest of Russian Propaganda, as of Aug 10

The New York Times found a Spanish-language source of Moscow’s lies, and Pushylin has already “liberated” half of the Donbas.

3 years ago

Unrepentant Amnesty, Putin and Erdogan's cat-and-mouse game, Pelosi's Taiwan visit

Amnesty International has joined the ranks of organizations that actually ignore the realities of the Russian-Ukrainian war

3 years ago

U.S. switches to Putin’s friends: a digest of Russian propaganda for August 2

The Kremlin has decided to legislatively “terrorize” the POWs of “Azov” and is eager to help China in the conflict with Taiwan. The Centre for Strategic Communications and Information Security collected the main fakes and narratives of Russian propaganda for August 2.

3 years ago

Does Orbán remember Son of Saul? A Digest of Russian Propaganda for July 22-24

The Kremlin has decided that the time has come for “peace talks” and is “complaining” about the tragic history of Ukrainians.

3 years ago

Geographic Discoveries Awaiting Russia: A Digest of Russian Propaganda for July 20

HIMARS has forced the Kremlin to once again revise its territorial plans for Ukraine, and sanctions in Russia are gradually bringing it closer to “sovereignty.”

3 years ago

Mariupol. Escape from hell. My story

About our escape from a dead city, filtration and life under occupation

3 years ago

Russian spies under diplomatic cover

Over the past months, the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, and EU countries have expelled a number of Russian diplomats, most of whom were in fact intelligence operatives.

3 years ago

Shoigu Disappointed Putin by “Capturing” Lysychansk: a Digest of Russian Propaganda of July 4

The Kremlin is boasting of “liberating the LPR,” but treats the main hero of this “victory” in a rather shady way. 

3 years ago

The Global Food Crisis and Europe: The Time to Counter the Threat is Now

Moscow, while losing the war it launched against Ukraine, seeks to artificially create a global food crisis and blame it on the European Union.