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.
- In Western media, publishing fake news about Russia is a good career move… with no consequences
Fighting "Russian disinformation" in the West has become a lucrative business. But, in reality, you're far more likely to encounter deceitful agitprop directed at Russia. - Dirty little secret: ‘Think tanks’ are among top culprits in media disinformation crisisMost consumers are unaware off the mainstream media’s dirty little secret. Think tanks are increasingly taking advantage of tight news budgets to influence the press agenda in favour of their sponsors.
- Ukraine apologists pinning Kiev’s dispute with Hungary on Russia is completely ludicrousUkraine and Hungary are two independent countries with their own bilateral relations. While Russia may benefit from their present squabbles that doesn't automatically mean the Kremlin is responsible for the tensions.
- Blip or trend? Regional elections suddenly become less predictable in RussiaRussia's Far East has given the Kremlin a bloody nose over the past two weekends. It's a reminder to Moscow that the regions can't be taken for granted and blowback can be expected over unpopular pension reforms.
- Western leaders descend on Macedonian 'battleground' as Moscow pulls its punchesOutside 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 interestIn 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 WestFor 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 disinformationAn 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 HelsinkiUS 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.
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