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Russia’s war against Ukraine “not only generates thousands of deaths of innocent civilians and Ukrainian soldiers, but Moscow with this insane act is playing with the planet’s food security, worsening hunger and poverty,” Jorge Bedoya, president of the Colombian Farmers Society, told Diálogo on January 18. The Kremlin continues to [ … ]

The Daniel Ortega-Rosario Murillo regime of Nicaragua, through the Communication and Citizenship Council (CCC), made up of the country’s state-owned media, signed a memorandum of understanding with Russian state media outlet RT en Español to “exchange” information, Nicaragua’s state-owned news site El 19 Digital reported in December 2022. “There is [ … ]

Russia and Nicaragua have signed a cybersecurity cooperation agreement for the 2022-2026 period, Nicaragua’s Official Gazette indicated. The agreement was made in Managua following cybersecurity meetings. “They say that they seek to do it peacefully but seeing the situation we are living today at the global level, it sounds more [ … ]

The Nicaraguan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation (Rosatom) signed a roadmap for the peaceful use of nuclear energy during the 12th International Atomexpo Forum, an event of the world nuclear industry held in the Russian city of Sochi, Nicaraguan daily La Prensa reported. "Nicaragua [ … ]

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Cuban counterpart Miguel Díaz-Canel met on November 22, 2022 in Moscow to strengthen their political and commercial relations, Colombian daily El Tiempo reported. “Cuba is Russia’s main operator in the Americas,” Carlos Sánchez Berzaín, director of the Miami think tank Inter-American Institute for Democracy [ … ]

The U.S. Treasury Department imposed economic sanctions on Russian citizen Dmitry Kudryakov and Belarusian citizen Iryna Litviniuk, who financed and directed three mining companies in Guatemala. “The sanctions are very important because the political or judicial sanctions for these companies are not enough,” Guadalupe García Prado, director of the Guatemalan [ … ]

Evidence is mounting that, as part of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s forces have targeted civilians and unlawfully deported citizens of Ukraine from their own country. Targeting civilians and the unlawful deportation of civilians are war crimes. “The aggression against Ukraine is a manifest violation of the U.N. [ … ]

A multilingual Telegram channel sponsored by the Russian government serves as a repository for Russian propaganda videos about the war in Ukraine, Nisos, a U.S.-based digital intelligence firm that monitors disinformation and other cyberthreats, said in an October report. “The videos can be downloaded directly from Telegram and that erases [ … ]

When Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces laid siege to Kherson in Ukraine in March, they blocked Ukrainians’ access to independent news and censored web traffic. After the Burmese military seized power in a February 2021 coup, the military blocked internet access to undermine widespread public opposition to the coup and [ … ]

Nicaragua’s access to credible news is shrinking. The Ortega-Murillo regime not only continues to shut down local media and persecute its journalists, it is now also making content available from Russian radio network and broadcaster Sputnik to some 20 Nicaraguan state-owned media outlets. “This is a practice that by design [ … ]

In a late August report, U.S. cybersecurity company Venafi indicated that 66 percent of organizations worldwide modified their cybersecurity strategy, as a “direct response to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.” “Everyone is a target, and unlike a kinetic warfare attack, only you can defend your business against nation-state cyberattacks,” [ … ]

Since the ban in the European Union (EU) of RT and Sputnik, two of the main outlets spreading disinformation about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, sites under other names that publish the same content have been on the rise, experts who track fake news on the internet said. NewsGuard, a journalism [ … ]