Anti-Fake

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.”

Russia claims to defend “traditional values” like faith, family, and patriotism. Yet it kidnaps children, jails priests, and sends soldiers back to war on crutches.

Russia has already invaded Ukraine from Belarusian soil, and today missiles stationed there—potentially including the intermediate-range hypersonic Oreshnik one that Russia plans to test—give the Kremlin the capacity to strike across Europe.