The victory of Russia and the failure of Romania in the left of the Prut have one name: “pro-Moldova”
Dan Dungaciu* With rare exceptions, nothing was written about the Chişinău electoral campaign. But its results and their consequences were widely discussed. Many times hastily, with a parade, self-justifying enthusiasm. The stake of this text, in terms of LARICS...
read moreThe dehumanization of America The operations of the coalition lead by the US against ISIS, under the magnifying glass of Russia
*Ioan-David Onel Photo source: screenshot sputniknews.com On December 7, 2017, the Russian publication Sputnik news, quoting the Syrian television Al Ekhbarya and the Arab Syrian Media Agency (SANA) was announcing “the complete destruction” of a hospital in the Syrian...
read moreThe need for heroes The self-esteem of a nation as supreme weapon against propaganda
Valentin Rupa* PHOTO I - actor Chris Evans, as the Captain America character from the movie Avengers: Age of Ultron; (source: https://www.thenational.ae) He is a strong man, always willing to do extreme efforts for the common good. He fights against the oppressors...
read moreDigital propaganda lessons of Kremlin before the elections in the Republic of Moldova
*Nicolae Țîbrigan It is no secret that the Russian Federation has already made a habit of aggressively engaging in the electoral campaigns of the Eastern Partnership states (PaE), including Moldova. Recently an edifying report on this subject was published,...
read moreThe Russian Press about the Protests in Victoria Square. What Can’t Be Heard at the Russia’s MFA, It’s Seen on TV
Tatiana Cojocari* © REUTERS/ INQUAM PHOTOS "In Truth lays no news and in news does not lay truth" [1] When the Department of Communication and Mass Media published a press release on the MFA of the Russian Federation’s website in reference to the anti-governmental...
read moreSputnik’s propaganda trends: Poland is a barrier in Ukraine’s development. Ukranians are exploited like slaves
Tudor Cîrligeanu* After a Facebook post was published by the Ukrainian Ex-Prime Minister Iulia Timoșenko about the economic situation of Ukrainains, the Russian Website Sputnik (with domains in Poland: sputnik.pl) published an article through which it aims to convey...
read moreHUNGARY AT TRIANON. STRATEGIC DISINFORMATION AND INFORMATIONAL WARFARE
George Damian* The Hungarian delegation in Paris (1920) tried to postpone as long as possible the signing of the peace treaty that would have led to the recognition of the Union between Transylvania with Romania. The delegation chief from Budapest, count Albert...
read moreWHAT IS POLITICAL “POPULISM” HIDING? THE EMPTY SHELL WAR
Dan Dungaciu* The today’s European war is a cultural one. The most concrete expression of this war is identitary, expressed through the political trends, tendencies and movemnets of this kind which we call using a term which can describe everthing and at the same time...
read moreThe Fake Western expert – The Russian Propaganda’s Tool
Analysis by Mădălina Mihalache* On 21st of May 2018, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the British Parliament published a report called “Moscow's Gold: Russian Corruption in the UK”, which represents a document that describes how British Parliamentary Members have...
read moreUnder Moscow’s protection, the binomial controls Chisinau. Next Tiraspol
Dan Dungaciu* There is something fishy in the Republic of Moldova… Here we don’t take into account some shenanigans from some naysayers in Bucharest – the small wreckers of the republic and Romania’s greastest foreigns affairs specialists! – who were waiting for a...
read moreRussian Troops in Transnistria have been legitimized by the UN
Dan Dungaciu* Beyond the Transnistrian issue there are three identitery issues, three “party and state” manipulations, officially speaking, in the Republic of Moldova. The first is the existance of the Plahotniuc-Dodon binomial, publicly presented as a radical...
read moreRussia – West: The Autumn Attacks
Horia Blidaru* F1 From secret services clashes, to either demonstrative or strategic positioning of troops on the world map – the recorded evolutions in an accelerated rythm, with the end of summer, highlights the confruntations that Russia assumes with the Western...
read morePro-Moldova, Meaning Pro-Russia. Chisinau Stabs Kiev Under Moscow’s Wing
Dan Dungaciu* Photo: The president-in-office special representative at OSCE for regulating Transnistria, Franco Frattini and DPM president, Vladimir Plahotniuc In the ‘70s there was a succesful American movie called Bewitched. The story was based on a husband’s social...
read moreHow did the African Swine Fever get infected by the Pro-Kremlin Propaganda Virus (Part 2)
*Nicolae Țîbrigan In the previous article I presented how in the Romanian press there was an attempt to spread disinformation and the exploitation of the myth reffering to the “conspiracy of the African Swine flew” in the most insidious way, using blogs, marginal...
read moreHow did the African Swine Fever get infected by the Pro-Kremlin Propaganda Virus (Part 1)
*Nicolae Țîbrigan Using for propaganda purposes a virus with worldwide spread, even among pigs, is not a new fact for Kremlin’s disinformation designers, making them succeed in perfecting and adapting the old “instruments” and narration models created since the Soviet...
read moreThe Russian Embassy in Romania denies the crimes of communism rehabilitating Stalin’s regime
*Nicolae Țîbrigan On December 28, 2018, the Russian Embassy in Romania posted on its Facebook page a Romanian and Russian text denouncing the crimes committed by the Red Army during the occupation of Romania after the Second World War. The armistice that ended on...
read moreUkraine, Moldova and Belarus facing Russian information warfare: what has been done; what to do next.
by Tatiana Cojocari, PhD candidate, Sociological Department, University of Bucharest, Research Assistant, Institute of Political Science and Foreign Policy “I.C.Brătinanu”; Ievgen Afanasiev, Master Student, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences; Dzmitry...
read moreDisinformation Campaigns Through Press
By George Scarlat and Corina Scarlat The 500-Year Information War Information wars against Romania have constantly been carried out by other nation states or foreign organizations, whether through press campaigns or black propaganda. Throughout history, the “dark...
read moreThe Copy-Paste Binomial Pact
Nicolae Țîbrigan* The article is about a story of two “leaders,” who occupy the political spectrum of the Republic of Moldova by force, intending to change the voting system. Both of them find themselves in a competition – secondary to sequential collaborations – and...
read moreThe mosque from Bucharest: about how it will really look
By Radu Cupcea* Around 19th of May this year, the Romanian media market had quickly picked up and distributed a photo gallery from Diyanet foundation’s website, which illustrates the project of a future mosque in Bucharest. Titled „This is how the mosque from...
read more“We think in Russian, dream in Russian”. Debunking the Project of Reintegration of Transnistria
Tatiana Cojocari* Tiraspol, 2017 (Sursa: ventus-reisen.de) Through this article we launch a series of thematic analyses dedicated to Transnistria and its political, economic, cultural and social realities. The conclusions are based on a field research conducted in...
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