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organizations, causes or people and presents commentary as a news product. This content is produced by organizations that do not employ professional journalists, and the content uses attention grabbing techniques, lots of pictures, moving images, excessive capitalization, ad hominem attacks, emotionally charged words and pictures, unsafe generalizations and other logical fallacies.
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Eastern Outlook is a pseudo-academic publication of the Russian Academy of Science's Institute of Oriental Studies that promotes disinformation and propaganda focused primarily on the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. It combines pro-Kremlin views of Russian academics with anti U.S. views of Western
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NEO is one of Russia's less-concealed outlets for propaganda and disinformation. One notorious 2016 article headlined "Top USA National
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is a pseudo-academic publication of the
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Most of the page’s posts linked to stories on its external website, Journal-neo.org, that primarily posted biased articles on a range of geopolitical, economic, and social issues. The
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Nathaniel
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Russia's SVR directs two additional disinformation outlets, New
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In order to survive the
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Earlier, forums like RT, a Kremlin-backed English-language site, were focused on promoting Russia's vaccine and denigrating Western vaccines. But more recently, Russia's state-run media has been 'really leaning into the culture war debates over vaccine and mask mandates,' said Bret Schafer, a
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described reports of Russian interference as "nonsense," saying "If we treat every negative publication against the Sputnik V vaccine as a result of efforts by American special services, then we will go crazy because we see it every day, every hour and in every Anglo-Saxon media."
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be Mikhail Kotyukov, a former head of the controversial Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations (FASO), which until now managed property and real estate of research institutions within the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), and effectively had control over the academy.
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Although the people behind this activity attempted to conceal their identities, our review found that some of this activity was linked to an individual based in Thailand associated with New Eastern Outlook, a Russian government-funded journal based in
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editorial staff appreciates viewpoints of any reader or contributor ready to share and defend his convictions and approaches, whether commonplace or unconventional." The earliest (January 25, 2014) archived version of
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