When NATO leaders meet in London from 3-4 December to celebrate the Alliance’s 70th birthday they will, apart from addressing some existential questions about the organisation, also discuss Russia. For sure, in this context the term…

Russian grammar can be difficult – even to a native speaker. However, in some Russian media, linguistic mistakes appear out of a wish to produce stories that fit the Kremlin’s narrative.A typical example is when a pro-Kremlin outlet…

Socialist MPs come with a law that provides information on the packaging of local medicines to contain information in the "moldovian language" and in russian language. The draft law of the Socialists was examined the previous days, within…

Russia's offensive tendencies during the last years, to rewrite, reinterpret and use for political purposes the history of the Second World War, which has changed the face of Europe and the whole world, are becoming increasingly evident.…

Have you ever heard of Lugar Lab? Its official name is the Central Public Health Reference Laboratory. It was opened in 2011 in Tbilisi, in partnership between Georgia and the US, with the latter financing the construction of the lab. The…

A Century of Georgia’s Struggle against Pro-Kremlin DisinformationAlmost 100 years ago, in a speech in Tbilisi 16 of January 1920; Noe Zhordania, the first leader of Democratic Georgia, declared the European path of his…

Many Ukrainian commentators have focused on Transdniestria as an example of the way in which Moscow uses a frozen conflict to influence a former Soviet republic, but they might learn more from considering the case…

The Russian state-controlled TV channel Pervy Kanal is in serious financial trouble, the business daily Vedomosti reports. According to Vedomosti’s sources, the channel’s problems have begun to affect one of its creditors, the Ostankino TV…

39 percent of Russians express trust Vladimir Putin; a number that has been constantly falling for over a year. The independent Russian pollster Levada Center has performed a survey on whom the Russians trust among the active…

In Russia, the only archives with repression in the USSR are destroyed on the basis of a secret interdepartmental order, from 2014, reports Kommersant newspaper, citing a statement of Roman Romanov, the director of the Museum of History,…