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How Russians are using the IMF meetings to distort news about the state of the economy

How Russians are using the IMF meetings to distort news about the state of the economy
Propagandists from Russian state media use the opportunity to attend regular International Monetary Fund (IMF) meetings to promote their news agenda to both domestic audiences and the international community. For example, at press briefings, they highlight the economic problems of Ukraine, the USA, and Europe to further "highlight" these issues for global and domestic audiences and publish distorted excerpts from responses.Good news about the Russian economy is exaggerated on the RIA Novosti website (a Russian state news agency), while bad news is ignored.Читати українською
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Elections overshadowed by Kyiv: Ukraine as the centerpiece of Orbán's campaign

Elections overshadowed by Kyiv: Ukraine as the centerpiece of Orbán's campaign
Parliamentary elections will take place in Hungary on April 12. The election campaign has been extremely heated. Viktor Orbán, who risks losing the election, has staked his campaign on anti-Ukrainian sentiment. Consequently, his campaign and the media under his control are constantly leveling accusations against Ukraine. We analyzed the content of the main pro-government media outlets and identified the key themes they have been promoting regarding Ukraine and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.Читати українською
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When #zelenskyclown is your favorite hashtag. We have discovered another bot farm on TikTok

"Daddy died from the mobilization," "Mother died saving her son from going to the war", "Mobilization, launched by Zelensky, has gone completely mad. We already live like we're in a detachment for the army,"... Such messages are spread on TikTok by a bot farm with almost 630 accounts. Its bots broadcast Russian narratives, incite Ukrainian citizens, and professionally discredit mobilization in Ukraine.Читати українською
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"Soft drinks commercials" and "gentle" Russification: How the USSR was creating an alternative reality

"Soft drinks commercials" and "gentle" Russification: How the USSR was creating an alternative reality
Soviet movies, along with a major part of Soviet literature and songs, attempted to describe an alternative utopian world that had little to do with the real Soviet life in the USSR, but which was implicitly presented as the "reality".In this imagined Soviet life, there was no poverty, no corruption among high officials, no police brutality against innocent, unarmed or unresisting people, and no police officer could knowingly collude with organized crime; while the existence of crime, corruption, and hooliganism was acknowledged, they were presented as marginal activities that could only exist at the lower levels of society. In this world, the criminals were always afraid of the police, but never vice versa.Читати українською
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How Gonzalo Lira's death is used to cover up Russian crimes

How Gonzalo Lira's death is used to cover up Russian crimes
In April 2025, Russian activist Yulia Latynina, who positions herself as an opposition politician but in fact systematically promotes Kremlin narratives, compared the murder of journalist Victoria Roshchyna in Russian captivity to the death of American pro-Russian blogger Gonzalo Lira in a Ukrainian detention center.Читати українською
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