The Arabic-language version of Russia’s propaganda outlet RT has signed cooperation agreements with the Emirati media outlet Al-Ittihad, the TRENDS research center, and Al-Ain University. The agreements aim to involve local students in RT’s operations. ▪️ RT has previously signed similar agreements with Egypt’s Sada El-Balad TV channel, Bahrain’s Al-Watan newspaper, and Jordan’s Petra news…
The Center for Countering Disinformation is launching a series of reports about Russian propaganda agents in the West. In this new project, we will highlight Russian propaganda journalists operating in the United States and Europe despite the sanctions and blocking of Russian media. Reports from the project “Kremlin’s information saboteurs in the West” are available…
The Center, together with the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine and the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine, continues to expose Russian athletes, esportsmen and sports officials who support Russia’s war against Ukraine. A new group of Russian sports figures who publicly support the actions of the Russian authorities, collect aid for Russian troops in…
Propaganda is spreading a fake report claiming that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has allegedly purchased the Palace Des Neiges hotel in the French ski resort of Courchevel for 88 million euros. ▫️ The video claims that the hotel was bought through the company Film Heritage Inc, which is linked to the President’s family. To create…
The CCD continues its series of reports on the main executors of Russian propaganda in the occupied territories of Ukraine. Today, we will introduce Ismail Abdullaiev, a propagandist who assisted the occupiers in launching television in Donetsk and Kherson. Little is known about his activities before the Russian invasion. He was a member of the…
The CCD continues its series of reports about the main perpetrators of Russian propaganda in the occupied territories of Ukraine. Today, we will introduce Anna Koborova, a propagandist and editor-in-chief of the largest media outlet created by the occupiers in the Kherson region—the Tavria TV channel. Koborova has worked for Kherson TV channels since 2005….
The Center monitors the information space in the Global South and identifies narratives favorable to Russia. In recent days, the key topics related to Ukraine have been: The Russian strike on the city of Dnipro with ballistic missile “Oreshnik”; The escalation of the war in Ukraine; Russia’s nuclear threats against the West; The participation of…
The CCD continues its series of reports about the main figures of Russian propaganda in the occupied territories of Ukraine. Today, we will focus on Leonard Svidovskov, a TV propagandist from Luhansk. Svidovskov began collaborating with the occupiers at the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Prior to that, he served as the…
The Kremlin has used the “meeting of the heads of delegations of security and special services of the CIS countries” as yet another propaganda platform to intimidate the world. Propaganda outlets are actively amplifying statements from the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergey Naryshkin, the Federal Security Service chief, Alexander Bortnikov, and former…
The CCD continues its series of reports about the main perpetrators of Russian propaganda in the occupied territories of Ukraine. Today, we will introduce Alexander Kofman, a propagandist and representative of the occupation administration in Donetsk. Before the Russian invasion, Kofman described his position in an interview as: “my patriotism ends with the fence of…
The Russian armed forces have recruited hundreds of Yemenis for the war in Ukraine through a company linked to the Houthi group, Financial Times reports. The main points of the article: ▫️ The recruitment of Yemeni soldiers began in July. ▫️ They were deceived into traveling to Russia and forced to sign contracts written in…
The propagandists claim that Ukrainian soldiers shot civilians who were “waiting for the Russian army” and publish videos of dead civilians without providing any evidence that they were killed by Ukrainian forces. Their disinformation is based solely on the accounts of “eyewitnesses” who are under occupation. These claims have no basis in reality and are…
