“Playing the Victim” by Timothy Snyder
Testimony to the United Nations Security Council on Russian hate speech
Society and Culture - Publications
15 March 2023
14 March 2023
Russia once again threatening Ukrainians with hunger
Russian propaganda is once again trying to intimidate Ukrainians by bringing up the alleged threat of hunger. Since early March, reports claiming the 2023 harvest will be catastrophically low, unable to cover even domestic needs, have been circulating across social media and Telegram channels.
10 March 2023
Russian propaganda in Middle East: Kremlin’s narratives for Türkiye, Egypt
On February 27, the Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security, together with partners, held a round table on the topic “Russian propaganda in the Middle East: narratives, dissemination, counteraction.”
07 March 2023
"City of Hope" near Cheremosh
An American company is implementing a project in Bukovyna that will provide shelter to 3,000 Ukrainian IDPs
24 February 2023
Russia’s disinformation efforts since full-scale invasion of Ukraine
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security collected the main observations and conclusions of its own research and analysis of the information field a year into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
21 February 2023
Bot attacks, fakes, and pseudo-lawyers’ advice: Russia trying to disrupt mobilization in Ukraine
“Dear Ukrainians! You know what is happening in our country. Our people are dying at the front, people who are not motivated to sacrifice their lives because they have only one, are drafted. Our authorities conceal the losses of the Armed Forces, we are ready to help you officially refuse to mobilize.”
European accents to train the future journalists
As an Erasmus+ project, KA2 DESTIN changes the system of training specialists for the media environment
17 February 2023
How Kremlin plans to turn Ukrainian children into ruscists by 2030
Imposing a Kremlin cult mindset on the Ukrainian children by 2030
13 February 2023
Foreign voices of Russian propaganda
The Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security has put together the stories of the most prominent Western media figures who spread Russian propaganda and barely hide their cooperation with Putin’s regime. They maintain their own projects, and also help each other to promote them.
10 February 2023
Why Russian athletes shouldn’t be allowed to compete at Olympics
On January 26, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) stated it would consider admitting Russian and Belarusian athletes to international competitions.
08 February 2023
Russian propaganda in Crimea: Kremlin Media integrating peninsula into Russia’s political and cultural space
A special characteristic of the media space in Crimea is that a significant part of publications currently working to support Russia’s war propaganda were founded and run even before 2014, doing nothing to conceal their pro-Moscow tilt.
02 February 2023
Microsoft, Boeing, General Electric and others... TOP-25 US companies that help Ukraine during the war
Member-Companies of the National Association of Manufacturers donate millions of dollars to support our country
01 February 2023
Another 'crucified boy': A 'chocolate' fake story from Russian propaganda
Russian propaganda continues to dehumanize Ukrainians with the help of outright fakes.
23 December 2022
RT: As world is fighting Kremlin media, propagandists are looking for new ways to influence foreign audiences
Partial or regional blocking of RT is ineffective as the Kremlin state media find new ways to promote their propaganda messages across the world’s information space.
22 December 2022
Shelling of civilians in Eastern Ukraine as Putin’s grand fake
The “key Russian fake,” which brought the most damage, killings, and actually ignited the war, is a false claim of the shelling of civilians in Donetsk and Luhansk by the Ukrainian forces.
16 December 2022
Corrupt rats eat up Putin’s illusion regarding Ukraine: propaganda digest for Dec14
Pushilin sets the task for Surovikin to liberate the “DPR,” while Moscow needs time to get out of Ukraine. The Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security has collected the main fakes and narratives of Russian propaganda for December 14.
14 December 2022
Russians should be ready. Putin follows Maduro: December 12 digest
Putin urged not to believe Konashenkov, and Medvedev complains about Mishustin.
12 December 2022
Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia: what Baltic countries write about Ukraine and how it is influenced by Russian propaganda
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security has analyzed the media landscape of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia based on monitoring conducted by the Ukrainian social startup LetsData in partnership with the Detector Media NGO in September and October to find out what the online media of the Baltic countries are saying about Ukraine and how Russian propaganda affects it.
Time to take responsibility: Speech by Oleksandra Matviychuk at Nobel Peace Prize awarding ceremony
The Center for Civil Liberties human rights watchdog, headed by Oleksandra Matviychuk, received the Nobel Peace Prize for the first time in the history of independent Ukraine.
Operation “Demoralization.” Pro-Russian Telegram channels sowing discouragement among Ukrainians
“Ukrainians will freeze this winter.” “The Russians will destroy all power stations.” “Ukraine is doomed.”
08 December 2022
Russians should listen to Engels: a digest of propaganda for December 5
The occupiers have already, as it turned out, completed the war to the “last Ukrainian,” and now call their Kalibrs “missiles of good”
“We do not want to go to The Hague, but we want to drive 15 million Ukrainians out of their homes”: how the energy terror is explained in Russia
Blackmailing Ukrainians with the lack of electricity in winter will go down in the history of Russia as a shameful act of state terrorism
03 December 2022
Russia already talking of “supporters of Putin’s regime”: propaganda digest for Dec 1
Russia’s federal TV channels are gradually preparing the citizens for the international tribunal, while three Kremlin elders clearly proved what devastation presides at the helm of the “Russian world.” The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security has collected the main fakes and narratives spun by Russian propaganda on December 1.
01 December 2022
Russian propaganda digest for Nov 30
Russia is preparing another “referendum” in Ukraine and explaining to Europeans why it was “forced” to attack the nation.
Russians’ mood: Anxiety until the end
After the nine months of hostilities, it is interesting to look at the trends in the attitude of Russians to the war in Ukraine.
30 November 2022
Goebbels advises Simonyan to “have the courage to live in danger”: propaganda digest for November 29
In Russia, there are already talks about the international tribunal, and propagandists are nervous about the recent decision of the EU Council.
29 November 2022
Shootings and other “brutalities.” Why Russian propaganda needs bloody news from Ukraine
The Russian propaganda machine stops at nothing to savor the details of the “atrocities of Ukrainian punishers,” regularly resorting to descriptions of the suffering of the “crucified boys” and the victims of the “Odesa Katyn.”
Holodomor 1932 – 1933 and the Russo-Ukrainian war
In 1932-1933, the Soviet totalitarian regime committed one of its most heinous crimes — genocide. Holodomor took the lives of millions of Ukrainians. This year, the Kremlin has unleashed another war of annihilation against the Ukrainian people and does not conceal its intentions to commit genocide.
22 November 2022
Russian propaganda in Latin America: What online media in Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil tell about Ukraine
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security analyzed the media landscape of Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico based on the monitoring conducted by LetsData, a Ukrainian startup, in partnership with Media Detector NGO September 12-25 to find out what online media in Latin America tell about Ukraine, and how Russian propaganda affects this information space.
14 November 2022
Why Russian state-run media have no place in civilized world
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security analyzed the content of Russian and foreign offices of RT and the most explicit cases to explain why the Russian state-run media do not belong in the media space of the civilized world.