Articles

18.06.2020

Active Measures – the Belarusian narrative in Ukraine

“…The Kremlin aspires to sow chaos and discord and advance its agenda in targeted nations, particularly in Europe and former Soviet republics such as the Baltics and Ukraine.

14.06.2020

Kremlin’s Influence Operations: Working Out Countering Mechanisms for Eastern Partnership Member States

In most cases, these operations go by a similar plot.

10.06.2020

Global Crisis of Trust and Disinformation

Among the various crises caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a crisis of trust in various institutions at the national and international levels.

29.05.2020

Czech Student Initiatives Focused on Media Literacy

There is a heated debate ongoing in the Czech Republic concerning threats stemming from disinformation and hostile foreign propaganda.

21.05.2020

A Change of Tactics. But Russia Has Not Changed Its Strategy over COVID-19

Moscow is desperately trying to use the coronavirus period to gain political preferences from Europe, which is primarily busy with the response to the consequences of the pandemic crisis.

18.05.2020

Someone Will Not Like It: United States Oil Supplies to Belarus

On May 15, the beginning of the supply of American oil to Belarus was announced.

12.05.2020

How to build the resilience of the country when your own government is spreading foreign disinformation? The case of Hungary

Disinformation targeting other countries was widely used by the Soviet Union and in recent years was reinvented as a primary foreign policy tool by Vladimir Putin.

28.04.2020

Evolution of Russian Media Ecosystem’s COVID-Related Propaganda Narrative

Our monitoring of Russian media ecosystem targeting international, Russian speaking, and Russian domestic audiences at the end of March – mid-April was aimed at assessing evolution in Covid-related Russia propaganda narratives compared to the previous period.

20.04.2020

Information sovereignty of Belarus: old new truncheon or cooperation tool

The concept of information sovereignty takes on various, often opposite, interpretations in the context of a new hybrid confrontation exploited by Russia, China, and smaller autocrats against the global democratic project.

18.04.2020

Sputnik Belarus’s Propaganda and Disinformation: Narratives, Methods, and Trends

A new study by Andrei Yeliseyeu explores propagandistic narratives of Sputnik Belarus and methods of its promotion based on systematic monitoring of content published by Russian-language Sputnik Belarus webpage in 2019. Sputnik Belarus, established in late 2014, is a part of Sputnik, a Russian news agency and radio broadcaster which publishes online stories and radio shows, as well as videos.

15.04.2020

Coercion to Self-isolation: All the Kremlin Man Out to Fight COVID-19 in Belarus

Kremlin’s concern is reflected in publications by those Russian media outlets which are an integral part of the Kremlin’s propaganda and disinformation machine.

31.03.2020

Propaganda in Time of Plague – In Between Reptilians and the Lifting of Sanctions

iSANS conducted a blitz-monitoring of narratives disseminated by Russian media for internal and foreign (European) use, pro-Russian sites in Belarus, as well as information that circulates in social networks, especially in groups related to pro-Russian activities.