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Arguing that the Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians are more russophobic than any other nation in the world, the Russian propaganda site, SputnikPogrom, outlines how…
With the rise of Donald Trump, fake news hit the West with such surprising ferocity that it’s easy to forget how long Russia has…
We need to reset relations with Russia on the Kremlin’s terms. That, stripped of its decorative elements, is the argument made by my old…
During my years at school, maps hung on our classroom walls on which the Finnish borders were clear, as were those of the Soviet…
Propaganda is now the central front of the New Cold War. But Estonians were on to the role of the Kremlin’s media machine much…
Given the rise in xenophobia in Russian society following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and his increasingly repressive authoritarianism at home, many have pointed…
Congratulations, US media! You’ve just covered your first press conference of an authoritarian leader with a massive ego and a deep disdain for your…
The following written testimony was given by Garry Kasparov about the situation in Putin’s Russia and Canada’s response to Kremlin aggression in the Canadian…
The media hullabaloo notwithstanding, the alleged “revelations” about the Russian hacking of the US presidential election have revealed precious little that is substantively new….
As the world slides into ever greater geopolitical uncertainty, the western world will need to look for moral leadership from unlikely sources. Last week,…
