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Fake Report Does a “newly leaked report” from the RAND Corporation, a U.S. think tank, reveal the “true motives behind European Destabilization & The Russia/Ukraine War”? No, that’s not true: In an email to Lead Stories and a news release
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The presidential office of Ukraine has changed the images published during Vladimir Zelensky‘s visit to the town of Izium in the country’s east. All outlets have silently removed a photo of one of Zelensky’s armed guards sporting an SS-style patch.
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As the war in Ukraine has put pressure on the global markets for food, Russia has spread conspiracy theories that blame the West. When the Dutch government announced plans in June to reduce certain greenhouse gas emissions by as much
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Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs as popularly called, have become an object of public discussion, with several countries going after the uncanny phenomenon. The latest to join the bandwagon is Ukraine, whose airspace has become host to UFOs in recent
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As Russia continues its assault on Ukraine, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) is keeping a close eye on Russia’s movements across the military, cyber, and information domains. With more than seven years of experience monitoring the situation
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BY FEDOR KRASHENINNIKOV The use of social media and various deceptive discourse production methods allows Vladimir Putin’s regime to address different segments of Russian society and foreign audiences with misaligned messages. Russia’s state-run media create multiple information bubbles in which
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Sarah Kendzior became a prominent voice in American political discourse, largely because of her biting and often prescient writing about former President Donald Trump. The St. Louis-based author, who received a doctorate in anthropology from Washington University and is an
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Sarah Kendzior became a prominent voice in American political discourse, largely because of her biting and often prescient writing about former President Donald Trump. The St. Louis-based author, who received a doctorate in anthropology from Washington University and is an
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300+ Miles Off Does this video show Russian tanks abandoned in the Kharkiv Region during the September 2022 Ukrainian counteroffensive that overran Russian positions in northeastern Ukraine? No, that’s not true: Lead Stories has corroborated open-source investigators’ use of Google
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Russia’s “besieged fortress” narrative generates grievances and resentments that enable President Putin to claim that Russia is “rising from its knees.” In this supposed existential construct, only Putin himself as a strong protector leader ensures regime continuity, stability, a sphere
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