In Russia, where open criticism of the war in Ukraine is effectively outlawed, memes have become a coded way to comment on the full-scale invasion. Many of the most widely shared memes mock the ...

In Russia, a court has declared satirical images comparing Russian President Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler as dangerous. Law enforcement officials claim such memes could incite terrorist activity, ...

Leaked records expose a vast Russian disinformation campaign run by the Social Design Agency, targeting Ukraine, the EU, and far-right political parties. The campaign used memes, fake news, forged ...

A Moscow court on January 19 sent a leader of the Uzbek diaspora in Russia, Usman Baratov, to pretrial detention for at least two months on a charge of inciting hatred with his online posts. Baratov ...