Anti-Fake

How much is the Kremlin willing to pay foreign-facing influencers to praise Russia? The bloggers claim nothing. The data says otherwise. Sasha Meets Russia, for instance, is just one among a network of “loyal foreign bloggers” managed by a stablemaster with direct Kremlin ties.

Amid Moscow’s collapsing economy, Russia’s top businessmen and officials are falling—literally and figuratively—under mysterious circumstances. Even the untouchables are vulnerable to a system in turmoil.

When was slavery abolished in your country? The Soviet Union’s myth was one of promised equality and progress. Yet millions lived as state-bound peasants—for them, serfdom was reintroduced and didn’t truly end until the 1970s.

Why waste elite spies when petty criminals will do? A new study exposes how Moscow is outsourcing sabotage and assassinations across Europe to gangs and convicts.

On September 28, Moldovans head to the polls in what their president calls a “final battle” with Russia. The Kremlin will stop at nothing—mass bribery, false priests, fake news farms—because the prize is enormous: a new staging ground against Ukraine and the EU.

Before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began on the ground, it had already started with propaganda in the Russian language, recasting war as a “ special military operation .” Now, Moscow advances its surrender demands while branding them “security guarantees.”