The Kremlin’s information manipulation and interference efforts against the United States and NATO began long before its second invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. While many Russian FIMI efforts today focus on degrading global support for Ukraine, the principal goals of the Kremlin’s influence efforts have been, and remain, much wider. They

They hide their true identities behind false websites, proxy agents, copycat organizations, trolls, bots, and deepfakes, because they know that their audiences will be skeptical if they know that the real source of their information is the Kremlin, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, al-Qaeda, or the Islam

On 6 March, Kaltan District Court in Kemerovo Region found Aleksandr Gennadyevich Tsikunov (born 25 November 1967) guilty under Criminal Code Article 282.2, Part 1 (“Organisation of the activities of a banned extremist organisation”). The Judge sentenced him to 6 years’ imprisonment, with 1 year’s restrictions on freedom and a 5-year ban on

We have yet to hear what Dutton’s plans for the aid budget are, but there are already murmurs of concern, including from among his own party members, that there will be cuts to fund increased spending elsewhere, including in defence. This is a valid concern given what we have seen in other countries such as the USA, the UK, and Germany in recent

Between 2000 and 2017, China invested approximately US$ 1.6 billion in 1,026 health projects across Africa, focusing on building health infrastructure, providing medical supplies and deploying medical teams.xii In recent years, China has pledged to invest an additional US$ 50 billion in various sectors, including health. The establishment of the Af