Bryan MacDonald
Before moving to Russia, Bryan MacDonald previously worked in Ireland for the Evening Herald, Ireland On Sunday and the Irish Independent. He also written for The Irish Examiner, The Star and The Dubliner magazine, as well as being a regular guest on Irish radio networks RTE and Newstalk.
- Western leaders descend on Macedonian 'battleground' as Moscow pulls its punches
Outside of the Balkans, Macedonia is a country rarely on the radar. Yet, this month, its two million people are at the center of an illusory tug-of-war. - Nothing to see here: Ukraine quietly settles ‘Lazarus’ Babchenko case as West’s media loses interest
In May, Ukrainian security services claimed they were forced to fake the death of a Russian journalist to protect him from assassination by Moscow. The way the case has been quietly, and quickly, resolved raises more questions. - Savchenko, Sentsov & Udaltsov: Blatant hypocrisy makes Russians deeply cynical about the West
For the present generation of Western politicians, ‘human rights activists’ and the mainstream media, it seems to be all about the prison, not the prisoner. And erstwhile ‘hero of Ukraine’ Nadia Savchenko would surely agree. - Was the modern concept of ‘fake news’ born in Georgia a decade ago?
An EU-sponsored report found that Georgia, not Russia, started the 2008 conflict, which kicked off after Tbilisi attacked South Ossetia. Nevertheless, much of the Western media and political classes hold Moscow responsible. - McCarthyism 2.0: Real skill of US ‘disinformation experts’ is spreading disinformation
An obscure bloggers hit-job on an American writer and his associates amounts to small beans. In the bigger picture, however, it exposes a cancer spreading through present American discourse on Russia and the wider world. - Putin-Trump summit: Not Munich, Pearl Harbor or Yalta, just Helsinki
US pundits used terms like "Munich," "Pearl Harbor" and "treason" to describe the Helsinki Summit. In reality, it was a pretty harmless encounter which changed little. - Too white to win? Russia boasts one of World Cup's most ethnically diverse squads
While most of us focus on the football, many Western media outlets have used the past few weeks to promote their “issues” agenda. Amid the virtue signaling, readers are being misled about the make-up of Team Russia. - Atlantic Council finally admits Ukraine’s Nazi problem, and seems upset RT reported it earlier
RT has accurately and consistently chronicled the rise of neo-Nazism in Ukraine. Now, rather belatedly, NATO’s principal mouthpiece has finally joined in, throwing some bizarre shade at this network in the process. - English football fans discover real Russia is different to Oxbridge-dominated media portrayal
As thousands of English football supporters attend the FIFA World Cup, the overwhelming feedback is that Russia is far better than they expected. The British media needs to analyze its own role in this paradox. - Atlantic Council: Pro-NATO pressure group uses distortions to fight ‘disinformation’
Fueling hysteria about ‘Russian disinformation,’ ‘Russian meddling,’ and ‘Russian propaganda’ has quickly become a lucrative pastime. Now NATO’s Atlantic Council has gathered the leading proponents under one umbrella.
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