"The Long Day" is movie that Ukrainians made about themselves
Director Alan Badoev tells us how he worked on the film, and we share our impressions of watching the winner of the Cinema for Victory documentary film festival
Society and Culture - Publications
10 March 2024
04 March 2024
“Kyiv in three days,” “dirty bomb,” and “another Stalingrad”: Russian propaganda adapting over two years of full-scale war
Two years ago, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. With the expansion and escalaction of the war theater, the information component of aggression was also enhanced. Kremlin propaganda simultaneously tries to justify an unprovoked attack, discredit Ukraine in the eyes of the international community and strip the nation of much needed support, demoralize and disorient the Ukrainians, and minimize the country’s ability to resist aggression.
01 March 2024
Explaining complex things in simple words: Winter results, EP resolution, dictator’s promises
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security pursues efforts to provide a brief explanation to foreign audiences on the current topics of particular interest as regards Ukraine.
09 February 2024
Anti-Semitic card of Russian propaganda
The Putin regime does not shy away from using the dirtiest methods to maintain power, discredit its enemies, and provoke destabilization in other countries. The Kremlin may consider the marked card of anti-Semitism to be one of its trump cards because it has allowed it to solve these problems for decades, to say the least.
08 February 2024
Ukrainians in Russia: When, how and why did largest Ukrainian diaspora disappear from view?
Or what one Zelensky decree means for the life of the Ukrainian diaspora in Russia
Explaining complex things in simple words: American assistance to Ukraine, visit of Josep Borrell, anti-mobilization protests
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security pursues efforts to provide a brief explanation to foreign audiences on the current topics of particular interest as regards Ukraine.
07 February 2024
Explaining complex things in simple words: Drone revolution, sanctions against Russian oil, recognition of Japan’s territorial integrity
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security pursues efforts to provide a brief explanation to foreign audiences on the current topics of particular interest as regards Ukraine.
02 February 2024
Explaining complex things in simple words: Voting for financial support of Ukraine in EU, energy independence, destruction of enemy ship
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security pursues efforts to provide a brief explanation to foreign audiences on the current topics of particular interest as regards Ukraine.
01 February 2024
Explaining complex things in simple words: POW swap, ICJ ruling, EU summit decision
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security pursues efforts to provide a brief explanation to foreign audiences on the current topics of particular interest as regards Ukraine.
Russian "Enigma" of the XXI сentury: Telegram’s сonnection to the Kremlin
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Telegram has gained a significant impact on the Ukrainian audience. Nearly a million users downloaded the app in the month after February 24, 2022. Today, 88% of Ukrainians use this messenger. Nowadays, Telegram for us is the source of news, warnings about missiles flying close to one’s location, fundraising by volunteers, and access to uncensored information from the battlefield in each phone.
31 January 2024
Spam, ads, fake news. Russian propaganda targeting Ukrainians on social media
The Kremlin uses all available tools, including social media, to spread propaganda and disinformation. Any platform created for communication, information exchange, or entertainment is turned into a weapon against users by the special services of Russia.
Explaining complex things in simple words: Destiny of Ukrainian war prisoners, war on Russian territory, NATO preparation measures
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security pursues efforts to provide a brief explanation to foreign audiences on the current topics of particular interest as regards Ukraine.
30 January 2024
Explaining complex things in simple words: Rumors about Zaluzhnyi's resignation, change in Hungary'sposition, fate of frozen Russian assets
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security pursues efforts to provide a brief explanation to foreign audiences on the current topics of particular interest as regards Ukraine.
26 January 2024
Explaining complex things in simple words: Investigation into IL-76 crash, Russian chemical weapons, commemorating Holocaust victims
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security pursues efforts to provide a brief explanation to foreign audiences on the current topics of particular interest as regards Ukraine.
25 January 2024
Explaining complex things in simple words: Il-76 incident, situation of Ukrainian POWs, consensus with Slovakia
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security pursues efforts to provide a brief explanation to foreign audiences on the current topics of particular interest as regards Ukraine.
24 January 2024
Explaining complex things in simple words: Massive shelling of Ukraine, Fico's anti-Ukrainian statements, Sweden's integration into NATO
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security pursues efforts to provide a brief explanation to foreign audiences on the current topics of particular interest as regards Ukraine.
23 January 2024
“Ukraine fatigue in the West”: Russian propaganda constructing a narrative
Russian propaganda is actively spreading narratives aimed at disuniting and weakening Western support for Ukraine.
22 January 2024
Explaining complex things in simple words: Day of Unity, attacks on targets on Russian soil, provocation in Donetsk
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security pursues the efforts to provide a brief explanation to foreign audiences on the current topics of particular interest as regards Ukraine.
19 January 2024
Explaining complex things in simple words: Artillery Coalition, NATO exercise, Hungary issue in the EU
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security pursues the efforts to provide a brief explanation to foreign audiences on the current topics of particular interest as regards Ukraine.
18 January 2024
Manufacturer of "home" drones: how realistic is it, what and how to assemble and test
I started assembling drones because the guys are waiting for at least one, at least two," says the "people's engineer"
10 January 2024
Can someone who has not fought understand military?
Crisis psychology training in Kropyvnytskyi teaches how to provide additional psychological assistance to people who have been in the area of active hostilities
08 January 2024
Swiss philanthropists: Ukraine has enough clothes and food, now it needs drones
From the first days of the war, the Priewe couple from Zurich founded a volunteer organization and has been collecting aid for Ukraine
06 January 2024
A dark space in Europe’s newsroom
Why TASS has not yet been expelled from the European Alliance of News Agencies
31 December 2023
“Budanov in a coma,” “New Jerusalem,” and “HAMAS obtaining Ukrainian weapons”: Top 10 spins by Russian propaganda in 2023
Disinformation is an integral part of Russian aggression against Ukraine, unleashed in 2014. Since the full-scale invasion, Kremlin propaganda has generated a wide range of absurd fake stories, with some of them becoming fertile ground for memes, including those of “combat mosquitoes” and a “dirty bomb”.
27 December 2023
ZOV/Pravda network as part of Russian propaganda spins
The Center for Strategic Communication has identified a network of Russia's ZOV/Pravda websites aimed at Ukrainian and foreign audiences (English, Polish, French, and Hispanic).
22 December 2023
Understanding Ukraine: 12 books in English
Ukrinform has prepared a selection of English-language books dedicated to Ukraine-related topics and published this year
21 December 2023
Wartime Tarot Readings in Russia
Information and psychological operations have been actively used by the Russians since the very outset of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Spreading disinformation, Russian narratives, and rocking the psyche are additional tools in the war they are waging against Ukrainians. Russian fortune-tellers on tarot cards have also played their part in the information war.
13 December 2023
Hungarians of Transcarpathia about new law: We feel that we have been heard
What is being said in Transcarpathia after MPs voted for the law on national minorities
12 December 2023
What’s wrong with pro-Russian blogger Gonzalo Lira
The Center for Strategic Communication explains the issue with a pro-Russian blogger, Gonzalo Lira, for whom Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk stood up.
06 December 2023
How parish wanted to become Ukrainian and what Moscow did about it
We analyze the transfer of the parish in Cherkasy to the OCU, the seizure of the church by thugs, and its release, which Moscow is trying to pass off as "persecution"