Who Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipeline?
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Russia’s Frighteningly Fascist Youth
Excerpt Russia’s Frighteningly Fascist Youth A new generation of Russians glorifies war, death, and Vladimir Putin. May 21, 2023, 7:00 AM By Ian Garner, a historian and translator of Russian war propaganda. Children attend an official initiation ceremony for the
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Rigging the Vote Won’t Be Easy for Erdogan
Analysis Rigging the Vote Won’t Be Easy for Erdogan Ahead of Turkey’s election, civil society organizations have mobilized a record number of volunteers to monitor and protect the polls. By Merve Tahiroglu, the Turkey program director at the Project on
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America Is Still Losing the Information War
Argument An expert’s point of view on a current event. America Is Still Losing the Information War Washington urgently needs a 21st-century communication strategy. By Ivana Stradner, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Anthony Ruggiero,
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Germany’s Coup Plot Was Rooted in Conspiracy Theories Beyond QAnon
On Dec. 7, authorities across Germany arrested at least 25 people in connection to a conspiracy to storm the Bundestag, attack the German power grid, and overthrow the German government. At least 25 others have been accused of involvement in
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Conspiracy Theories About COVID-19 Are Dangerous and Unsupported
In July 2020, the Lancet, one of the world’s premier medical journals, announced the creation of a COVID-19 “Commission” with the stated mission “to help speed up global, equitable, and lasting solutions to the pandemic.” Many of the commissioners are
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Putin Has a New Opposition—and It’s Furious at Defeat in Ukraine
A new Russian protest movement is coalescing, but it’s neither pro-democracy nor anti-war. Instead, it’s the most extreme of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s supporters, who have grown increasingly furious at the unfolding military disaster for Russia in the six-month-long war
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Ukraine War Wrecks Russian Diplomats’ Reputations in the West
Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine stunned the world as it ignited the biggest land war in Europe since World War II. Also stunned, it turns out, was at least one of Moscow’s own diplomats, who had been left in the
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Kremlin’s Latest Conspiracy Theory: Monkeypox Could Be a Secret U.S. Bioweapon
There’s a lot we don’t know about how monkeypox, which had been prevalent in parts of Africa but only started infecting people in the United States and Europe this spring, is spreading. Yet the Russian defense ministry and Kremlin-controlled media
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