Russian Information Warfare

is an independent analytical repository dedicated to exposing Russian state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, & influence operations.

[Russian Information Warfare @RussInfoWar]

A Russian PR firm paid European YouTubers to claim AstraZeneca's vaccine could turn you into a chimpanzee — one thread in a state-backed campaign smearing Western vaccines to boost Sputnik V. Meta banned the network in 2021. #SputnikV #COVID19 #Disinformation

[Russian Information Warfare @RussInfoWar]

GRU Unit 29155 — the same team behind the Skripal poisoning — blew up a Czech arms depot in 2014 to choke off weapons bound for Ukraine. Moscow's response 7 years later: call the evidence a "fake" and expel 20 diplomats. #Vrbetice #GRU #Disinformation

[Russian Information Warfare @RussInfoWar]

Twitter found thousands of IRA accounts posted 1M+ Brexit tweets, incl. a same-day blitz on referendum day. A 2020 UK report found RT/Sputnik out-reached Vote Leave itself — and that nobody in government ever formally checked the impact. #Brexit #RussianDisinfo #IRA

[Russian Information Warfare @RussInfoWar]

Kazakhstan's president claimed "20,000 terrorists" attacked in Jan 2022 — never named, never proven. Putin backed the story, sent CSTO troops, and called it stopping a "color revolution." Officials called it "standard Russian disinformation." #Kazakhstan #Disinformation

[Russian Information Warfare @RussInfoWar]

RT spent a decade accusing a murdered ex-spy's own friend of killing him — while a UK inquiry and the ECHR both found Russia responsible for his polonium poisoning. His widow says the same denial playbook was reused for Skripal. #Litvinenko #RussianDisinfo #NarrativeLaundering

[Russian Information Warfare @RussInfoWar]

Russia's MOD invented "US biolabs" in Ukraine on March 6, 2022. Five days later it was before the UN Security Council. China amplified it, QAnon adopted it, Sputnik still calls it "vindicated" in 2026. Zero evidence, ever. #UkraineBiolabs #FirehoseOfFalsehood #RussianDisinfo

[Russian Information Warfare @RussInfoWar]

The Macron Leaks introduced a tactic still underused by defenders: mixing real docs with fakes so fact-checkers burn time authenticating everything. How should campaigns prepare against a 'contaminated leak'? #RussianDisinfo #Misinformation #CyberWar

[Russian Information Warfare @RussInfoWar]

Thirty-six hours before France's 2017 runoff, 9GB of Macron files leaked. A mixture of real documents and fakes. The goal: make truth and lies indistinguishable. France's cyber agency had pre-warned the campaign of potential #RussianInfoAttacks #CyberWar
https://t.co/41CJMjfOYr

[Russian Information Warfare @RussInfoWar]

Russia's #MH17 playbook. Created multiple contradictory narratives, fabricated evidence, a #GRU-backed outlet posing as investigators. This OP became the template for every denial operation since. Where do you think this specific approach gets used next? #RussiaMisinformation

[Russian Information Warfare @RussInfoWar]

Russia never settled on one MH17 narrative. Instead running several at once. Bellingcat exposed Bonanza Media — a GRU front that received hacked files from the official Dutch-led inquiry while posing as independent investigators https://t.co/PBERpeB2CL #russiadisnfo

[TVP World @TVPWorld_com]

“Poland is a strong ally. Poland is a critical country in the effort to protect Europe from aggression from Russia,” said Leon Panetta, former U.S. Secretary of Defense and former CIA director in an interview with TVP World.

[Russian Information Warfare @RussInfoWar]

If Russian operations are now writing content specifically to shape what AI tools say and most disinformation detection is built around human content. Can you think of any tools that could effectively counter AI disinfo? #RussiaDisinfo #RussiaInfoWar

[Russian Information Warfare @RussInfoWar]

Doppelganger is still active despite EU sanctions & Meta takedowns. Are government sanctions & platforms enforcement sufficient? What else could be done to counter them? #RussiaDisinfo #RussiaMisinfo #RussianInfoWars #InformationWarfare

[Russian Information Warfare @RussInfoWar]

Russia's Doppelganger OP, run by Social Design Agency, built a network of fake sites cloning Der Spiegel, Le Parisien, Fox News, & Washington Post. AI Forensics tracked 3,826 pages of pro-Russian content. Reaching 38 million users between 2023 - 2024
https://t.co/jRO3J3GkDr

[Russian Information Warfare @RussInfoWar]

Russia's disinfo OPs are targeting AI chatbots. During Australia's 2025 federal election, a Russian network published fake news stories designed to be indexed by AI systems to contaminate what AI assistants say when voters ask questions about candidates
https://t.co/84EiqVXJ21

[Ruslan Trad @ruslantrad]

To my great regret - both as a journalist and researcher, and as a citizen - Bulgaria does not receive the attention it deserves from experts in information operations, even though the country and the region play a significant role in Russia’s hybrid warfare. In general, Southeast Europe and the Black Sea region are considered too peripheral to warrant much interest, and this is a strategic mistake.

If there’s one thing I’d recommend you listen to, it’s this episode of Active Measures’s podcast with my colleague Sopo Gelava, whose latest work on Bulgaria is particularly important.

https://t.co/7D3jTCeIjE

[Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @OCCRP]

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[Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @OCCRP]

The strategy played out in false-flag operations across Europe, including severed pig heads left outside Paris mosques, vandalism targeting Jewish sites, and plans to frame Ukrainians for provocative attacks.

[Russian Information Warfare @RussInfoWar]

Russia's IRA racial divisions tactic in 2016 ran simultaneous accounts on opposing sides of the same issues, getting them to engage with each other. That infrastructure for inflaming domestic fractures is still active. Is the U.S. or EU more vulnerable to division? #politics #rus

[Russian Information Warfare @RussInfoWar]

The Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the IRA found that African Americans were the single most targeted group in Russia's 2016 #Disinfo. The goal was to amplify distrust in democratic institutions through content on race, policing, & inequality https://t.co/YuirmifQ8e