The West is paying ever more attention to Kremlin disinformation but has focused almost exclusively on Moscow’s use of the media, classical and electronic. As a result, it often misses the other channels Russia uses to put out lies to muddy the waters and undermine truth as such, Tallinn’s International Center for Defense and Security says.
Among the most important of these additional channels, Yevgen Tsybulenko and Dmitry Teperik of the ICDS say, are international forums, such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the United Nations, and informal meetings of opinion leaders, experts and politicians.