Vlada Vazheyevskyy

Russian propaganda in Norway does not speak Russian. It speaks through Norwegian commentators, taps into concerns over taxes, rising prices, and domestic politics, and conceals its Kremlin-linked sources behind layers of citations. 

Russia, one of the largest settler colonial states still standing, has refined one of the most effective instruments for advancing its territorial ambitions: the Military Builders.

For centuries, Russia has tried to eradicate dissent—including in territories it colonized—by sending political prisoners to penal colonies across its empire. Today, this system has mutated once again—this time, in newly occupied Ukraine.