When the EU adopted its 20th sanctions package on April 23, 2026, Russian state media and their European proxy supporters responded with a three-part counter-offensive: […]
The most ambitious Russian propaganda campaign of April 2026 was not a single lie but a three-part architecture: “the EU is a corrupt dictatorship, Europe
The Anti-European Narrative at the Heart of Russia’s April 2026 Campaign Read More »
Russian state media and their European proxy outlets ran six coordinated propaganda narratives in April 2026, from casting Brussels as a “dictatorship” to celebrating “American
Kremlin’s April Playbook: Six Narratives Russia and Its European Proxies Ran in Tandem Read More »
Across a dozen European countries, a coordinated disinformation network is running the same play: the country that invaded Ukraine is the victim, and the countries
Russia cannot intimidate European governments into abandoning Ukraine. So it is targeting their citizens instead – through a network of proxy media outlets that carries
Bulgaria’s eighth snap election in five years has produced its most consequential result in nearly three decades, and the world is reading it very differently
Viktor Orbán’s fall after 16 years in power is not simply a Hungarian story. It is evidence that the authoritarian populist wave that reshaped European
Orbán Is Gone and He Is Not Coming Back: Why Europe’s Authoritarian Wave Has Peaked Read More »
Russia is running a coordinated hybrid campaign against the Baltic states, combining cyberattacks, manufactured disinformation, and a separatist provocation modelled on the Donbas playbook. The
No Bombs Required: Russia’s Hybrid War on the Baltic States Is Already Underway Read More »
Moscow’s response to Orbán’s electoral defeat was swift, contradictory, and revealing: deny the friendship, manage the damage, and hope the propaganda holds. Viktor Orbán’s defeat
Leaked audio recordings reveal Hungary’s Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó systematically briefed Russia’s Sergey Lavrov on confidential EU deliberations and coordinated Budapest’s vetoes with Moscow. The
US Vice President JD Vance’s visit to Budapest on April 7 to openly endorse Viktor Orbán ahead of Hungary’s April 12 parliamentary elections broke with
With Hungary’s April 12 vote three weeks away and Fidesz trailing in the polls for the first time in years, Moscow has deployed political strategists,
