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ZAPAD 2021 Communication Analysis: Messages,Narratives, (Dis)information

Communication analysis of ZAPAD 2021 indicated a presence of a number of complex information influence operations that were employed by...

Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan used to discredit NATO in pro-Russian media

In August 2021 U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan after nearly a two-decade-long mission launched after the Al Qaida 11 September 2001...

NATO targeted by accusations of spreading new strains of COVID-19 and preparing to attack Russia

As March brought a couple of symbolic dates for NATO members, disinformation flow was tied to events such as the anniversaries of the...

‘Remnant of the Cold War’: Kremlin related media undermines the relevance of NATO

In addition to usual messages embedded in false and misleading content about the NATO, February sought a rise of claims questioning the...

NATO targeted with false narratives about ‘offensive’ exercises and stirring protests in Russia

Recent analysis has shown that hostile media sources have switched their focus from the military agenda of NATO to the political one,...

'Aggressive' and 'breaking its promises': portrayal of NATO activities in the Baltics

Despite the focus of the media mostly falling on the COVID-19 pandemic, NATO remains one of the main topics discussed by Kremlin-related...

NATO drills, COVID-19 rules, alleged interference in Belarus used to target the Baltics and Poland

While the second wave of COVID-19 is raging, the pandemic still is at the core of false/misleading information targeting Lithuania,...

70% of the information about the NATO exercise Defender 2020 was misleading

NATO’s Defender Europe 2020 exercise, scheduled for May in Eastern Europe, was set to become the Alliance’s largest exercise on the...

Disinformers take an advantage of COVID-19 crisis

“Pharmaceutical industry denies the fact that vitamin C kills coronavirus”, “Lithuania has chosen natural selection – only the strongest...