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China stands to gain from a weakened Russia; The West should prepare now

As the war in Ukraine enters yet another phase with the coming Ukrainian offensive, it is clear that China is…

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Right-wing groups in Europe linked to Russia

Since 2004, Russia has been uniting and financing neo-Nazi and right-wing movements around the world: Serbia has been sending fighters…

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The challenges of resources and tools for fact-checking the Russian-Ukrainian war

Information disorders have no borders, and the case of the Russian-Ukrainian war illustrates a dynamic where manipulated contents travel from…

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Putin Is Opening A Door For China

It was a mysterious visit. With a perpetual smile on his lips, Xi Jinping looked alien in the gloomy interior…

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“Russia has turned into a dictatorship”

By Steve Rosenberg Imagine being in court and seeing your son – a government critic – sentenced to 25 years…

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Time to Expose Putin as an Unreliable Ally

Fresh hostilities broke out between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh region last week. As a result, nearly 100 people…

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The four pillars of Ukraine’s victory by Janusz Bugajski

Exclusively for The Geopost: Janusz Bugajski Ukraine’s much anticipated counter-offensive will be a vital stage in expelling Russia’s invasion force…

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Russia’s disintegration will happen and it will not be peaceful – interview

Janusz Bugajski/ Latvie dole Russia’s disintegration started before its invasion of Ukraine, but the war accelerated the process. The Kremlin…

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Chinese Regime Adopts Russian Disinformation Tactics

China is increasingly adopting tactics associated with Russia to generate propaganda and disinformation in order to expand its geopolitical and…

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The Kremlin Drone Ding and the Wagner Rant

The past week has seen two strange developments related to the Ukraine war that have raised more questions than answers:…

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Hatred against Albanians in Serbia has not died yet, we don’t know when it will

By Aleksej Kišjuhas Albanophobia in Serbia is not dead and we do not know when it will be. And what…

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How Biden Lost the Balkans

The United States has deepened its commitments to Serbia’s near-autocratic president and reoriented its regional posture to center Belgrade’s foreign-policy…

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Surviving the War: Russia-Western Balkan Ties After the Invasion of Ukraine

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 pushed Europe into a new era of instability. The fundamentals of the continent’s…

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How Bulgarian media turn into megaphones for Kremlin propaganda

Written by: Vassilena Dotkova / http://www.factcheck.bg America is building the Fourth Reich in Europe; The International Criminal Court in the Hague…

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Tucker Carlson Is Only One Part of Putin’s Disinformation War in the Western Media

The western media has shown strange mixes of courage and cowardice, as well as naivety and cynicism, in their parroting…

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This Is Make or Break Time for Desperate Vladimir Putin

During Russia’s blood-stained spring of 1919, about 10 months after the Cheka executed the tsarist Romanov family in a grubby…

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The Balkans are coming apart

I’ve been too committed to book-writing to comment much lately, but the deteriorating situation in the Balkans prompts this post.…

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Russia’s Milestone on the Road to Dictatorship

The evolution from authoritarian state to dictatorship can happen in a moment, but more often it’s a lengthier and stuttering…

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The end of days for Russia’s church in Ukraine

Ukrainian authorities are considering banning the Moscow-tied Ukrainian Orthodox Church. President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine has triggered many…

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US Journalist Arrest Part of Russia’s Aggression Towards Ukraine

The Russian government’s crackdown on free speech and human rights has intensified since Vladimir Putin began his invasion of Ukraine.…

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Russian diplomatic facilities serve as sigint nests in Europe

Specialized equipment for signals intelligence (SIGINT) has been mounted on the roof of the Russian diplomats’ building in Warsaw. From…

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Montenegro’s historic challenge

Exclusively for The Geopost: Janusz Bugajski The results of Montenegro’s presidential elections and the upcoming June parliamentary ballot will determine…

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10 popular misconceptions about Ukrainian history, debunked

From the birth of Kyivan Rus, the first East Slavic state, to the onset of armed conflicts in the ensuing…

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Pro-Russian Twitter accounts targeting Western perception of Ukraine war, study finds

A University of Regina professor is among those leading a new study by Canadian and American researches that has found…

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Putin’s hybrid warfare diverts Western attention and resources from Ukraine

If America wants to end the Ukraine war, the first step is to see the conflict through the Kremlin’s eyes.…

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Russia’s Far-Right Campaign in Europe

NATO continues to thwart and confront Russia’s aggression in Ukraine through sanctions, political pressure, arms supplies, and economic support for…

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Russian influence through propagandist narratives increases anti-european mood in the North Macedonia

“Membership in NATO is harmful, costly, but also treasonous as Greece takes control of the airspace of North Macedonia”. “Russia…

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Russia is losing the information war at home and abroad

The assassination of a prominent Russian propagandist in St. Petersburg exposes the growing confusion in Moscow’s information war. Vladlen Tatarsky…

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Putin doesn’t want the war to end – he wants to blast us back to the 40s Soviet era

Four years ago, I wrote a novel in which the feeling that there was a “deficit of future” was so…

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Almost 1200 manipulations and disinformation on the front pages of five newspapers in Serbia last year

The newspapers Informer, Alo, Večernje novosti, Kurir and Srpski telegraf published at least 1,174 manipulative headlines on their front pages…

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The Washington Post: How Russia turned America’s helping hand to Ukraine into a vast lie

Information is the world’s lifeblood. It pulsates in torrents of facts and images. We are swamped with it. But information…

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He came to D.C. as a Brazilian student. The U.S. says he was a Russian spy

Like anyone who gets into his dream college, Victor Muller Ferreira was ecstatic when he was admitted to Johns Hopkins…

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Abolition of visas with China, a dilemma between benefits and consequences for Albania

After February 17, 2023, Albanian citizens will be able to travel to China without a visa. This diplomatic as well…

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How a ‘liberal’ Telegram channel began peddling Kremlin disinformation to 1.6 million people

Since the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Telegram channels have become one of the Russian authorities’ most powerful…

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Why is North Macedonia target of Russia?

Since 2016, when Skopje intensified its efforts to resolve the name dispute with Athens, Russia has significantly increased its diplomatic…

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From Crimea to the Hague

Last Thursday, 16 March marked nine years since Russia organised an illegal and illegitimate(opens in a new tab) referendum to…

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The ‘Yugoslavia Scenario’: How Russia intends to use an anniversary in its ongoing information war?

On Tuesday Vladimir Putin warned the U.K. against sending Ukraine depleted uranium shells. Maria Zakharova immediately called this plan the…

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Russian disinformation in the Balkans: Predating the invasion?

Russia’s successful infiltration of media in the Balkans predates a possible invasion, thanks to a network of Kremlin-aligned businesspeople, politicians,…

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Russian meddling in media space, efforts to undermine Europe’s cybersecurity

Bots, coordinated inauthentic behavior originating from Russia, espionage attempts by Russian hackers targeting Ukraine’s allies, cyberattacks, and mass creation of…

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Russian propaganda media show video of Putin’s visit to Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Mariupol

Russian media has reported that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin visited the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol in Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast. A…

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A Tale of two Balkan Conspiracies

Exclusively for The Geopost: Janusz Bugajski Two major conspiracy theories in the Western Balkans revolve around the ultimate resolution of…

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