With Wit and Spice: How Moscow Uses Telegram to Target the Baltic Russians

Russia’s Pravfond has granted €109,000 to a network of Telegram accounts to distribute propaganda about the Baltics.

Russia’s Pravfond has granted €109,000 to a network of Telegram accounts to distribute propaganda about the Baltics.

Since Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine, its propaganda has claimed that residents of the Baltic states are fleeing en masse to Russia and Belarus to escape “russophobia.” Re:Baltica investigation reveals different truths behind these narratives.

Accused of working with the Russian security service, Latvian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka mockingly donned sunglasses at a press conference – as if in a spy movie. The accusations won’t be laughed off that easily: Re:Baltica has obtained almost 19,000 of Ždanoka's e-mails detailing how she served the Kremlin.