Tag: putin

• How Russia Recruits Teenagers in Occupied Ukraine for a Pro-Moscow Propaganda Machine

  April 30, 2026

  Trips to Russia, master classes from Kremlin-aligned media figures, and lessons in Soviet military glory. Through its “Young Correspondents” program, Russia is training teenagers in occupied Ukraine to promote the… more ›

• None Dare Call It a Conspiracy

  January 15, 2026

  From the GQ archives: Who was behind the 1999 Moscow apartment bombings that accelerated Vladimir Putin’s rise to power? https://www.gq.com/story/moscow-bombings-mikhail-trepashkin-and-putin more ›

• How Putin got the Middle East wrong – Engelsberg ideas

  July 6, 2025

  With Russia’s key partner in the Middle East on the ropes, the Kremlin runs the risk of being drawn into a broader conflict it cannot afford. So far, Putin has… more ›

• In Russia, dozens of dissenters are held as psychiatric patients

  February 20, 2025

    LONDON, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Dozens of Russians are being subjected to compulsory psychiatric treatment because of their political views, according to lawyers and human rights groups – a… more ›

• Russia’s Dangerous Decline

  November 4, 2022

  At a White House ceremony on August 9, days after the U.S. Senate agreed in a near-unanimous vote to ratify the expansion of NATO to include Finland and Sweden, U.S.… more ›

• Decoding the Wagner Group: Analyzing the Role of Private Military Security Contractors in Russian Proxy Warfare

  August 13, 2022

  Russian private military security contractors (PMSCs) are pivotal players in ongoing proxy wars in the Greater Middle East and its periphery. Their covert operations—real and imagined—are also critical in shaping… more ›

• Putin Chef’s Kisses of Death: Russia’s Shadow Army’s State-Run Structure Exposed

  August 13, 2022

  Yevgeny Prigozhin can be described as the Renaissance man of deniable Russian black ops. An ex convict who served time for robbery, fraud and involving a minor in drinking and criminal activity, he began… more ›

• How Investigative Journalism Flourished in Hostile Russia

  March 5, 2021

  The Russian language has introduced a few words that in recent years have been widely used and misused in English: disinformation, kompromat, Novichok. But the one that blows my mind… more ›

• Deepfake Putin is here to warn Americans about their self-inflicted doom

  September 30, 2020

  AI-generated synthetic media is being used in a political ad campaign—not to disrupt the election, but to save it. The news: Two political ads will broadcast on social media today,… more ›

• IRA in Ghana: Double Deceit

  March 16, 2020

  Russian operation linked to former IRA associates employed social media users in Ghana to target black communities in the US On March 12, 2020, CNN, Twitter, Facebook, Graphika, and two… more ›