Category: Main news
They’re Beautiful, Anti-European… and They Don’t Exist. They’ve also Vanished from the Internet
They are beautiful, eloquent—and entirely fictional. Videos promoting Poland’s exit from the European Union (“Polexit”) recently surfaced online, fe [...]
Moscow Komsomolets Sees Poland as a Periphery of Its Empire
Poland’s concern for its own security is met with mockery in many Russian media outlets, which claim that the perceived threat from Russia is imagina [...]
Fake Newsweek, Real Manipulation
Think you are reading a news article written by professional journalists at the renowned Newsweek? Think again. What you are seeing may be content fa [...]
Piglets, Swine Underlings, or Swinish Lackeys: What Did Putin Really Mean?
Russian propaganda—much like the Russian state itself—appears to know no limits, especially when directed at nations and states that the Kremlin does [...]
Child’s Death Exploited to Fuel Anti Ukrainian Propaganda
The tragic events in Jelenia Góra have been exploited to spread disinformation. Following the murder of an 11-year-old girl, false claims began circu [...]
Russian Disinformation: A Real Challenge to European Security
A conference held at Olsztyn Castle, titled “Truth, War, and Information: Russian Disinformation as a Challenge to European Security,” brought togeth [...]
Better to Siberia than to the Poles. The Whitewashing of the Red Army at Poland’s Expense
Were Poles worse than Red Army soldiers? Yes they were, they werę so bad that their victims preferred Soviet Siberia to Poland? [...]
Lenin as Liberator? Russia’s Latest Historical Lie
Piłsudski, Daszyński, Witos, Dmowski? According to Moscow, none of them. Instead, Vladimir Lenin is now being portrayed as the father of Poland’s reg [...]
The Kremlin Likes to “Kill” Poles
Russian media outlets love to "kill" Poles online. They regularly publish articles containing varying degrees of accuracy regarding the number of Pol [...]
After Ukraine, the EU Is Next: The Kremlin’s Expanding Narrative of a “Nazi Europe”
Until recently, Nazism in Russian media has been reserved for Ukraine. This is now changing. Russian propaganda is increasingly focused on breaking t [...]