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Chronicle of disinformation and manipulation in Armenia August–October 7, 2026 How does a real state program turn into a promise to distribute money to everyone, a conference statement into a ...

IGFM schult Medienschaffende bei der Abwehr von „Fakenews“ In kaum einem Land war Desinformation so verbreitet wie in Armenien vor den Parlamentswahlen am 7. Juni 2026. Nach der aserbaidschanischen Militäroffensive ...

Katrin Bornmüller receives the 30th European Social Prize in Eschweiler The ISHR’s Honorary Chair has been committed to human rights and humanitarian aid for decades Frankfurt am Main/Eschweiler, 29 September ...

"Deepfake: When you can't even trust your own eyes" Imagine a famous person making a statement in a video. You see his face, you hear his voice. Everything seems real. ...

How did the August coup come about? Why did the army not open fire on the protesters? What did Russia’s future look like in August 1991? And why did the ...

A warning sign for the region: what the new Global State of Democracy report reveals about the state of institutions in Moldova The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance ...

Do Russia's 2026 election results show support for war? Claim: The victory of the pro-government United Russia party in the Russian State Duma elections and the high voter turnout show ...

The booklet was prepared within the framework of the "Monitoring Disinformation Flows" project by the Human Rights International (HRI) Armenia organization. The main goal of the project is to increase ...

The video, which was posted on the “Public News” Facebook page on September 20, has garnered more than 141,000 views and has been presented as a “scandalous revelation” by Alexander ...

Hundreds of Peruvian citizens are said to have been lured to Russia with fake job offers and then pushed or forced to serve in the Russian armed forces. The International ...

Nikol Pashinyan awarded the Hesse Peace Prize: Peace and democracy as a strategic choice for Armenia On September 18, 2026, in the Hesse State Parliament, Germany, the Prime Minister of ...

In early September, a statement attributed to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan spread on social media, which referred to Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, relations between Armenia and Russia, and the ...

From fake quotes to fake sources: A Russian network's attempt to have its own Wikipedia for Armenia In April 2026, just two months before the parliamentary elections in Armenia, the ...

The presence of the Russian 102nd military base in Armenia has been presented for decades as a crucial component of Armenia's security system. At the same time, in recent years, ...

Why does false information spread so quickly on social media? Social networks as an accelerator of disinformation One of the reasons is the algorithms of social networks. Platforms track what ...

The Armenian nuclear power plant, the Metsamor NPP, has been a key link in Armenia’s energy security for decades. At the same time, contradictory claims are circulating around it: that ...