The incident on June 5, 2026, when four Ukrainian naval drones entered Romanian territorial waters and self-destructed, sparked one of the most aggressive disinformation campaigns in recent months in the Romanian-language information space. Starting from a real event and the public’s legitimate concerns regarding the security of the Black Sea region […]
Victory Day (celebrated in Europe on May 8), but marked with great pomp in Moscow on May 9, has come to represent for today’s Russian establishment not only a means of projecting an image, but also a factor in consolidating the regime, increasing its power on the international stage, and a tool in the hybrid war being waged
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On March 11, 2026, the Supreme Council for National Defense (CSAT) approved the United States’ request to temporarily deploy refueling aircraft, surveillance equipment, and satellite communications systems in Romania to support U.S. operations in the war with Iran. The decision, subsequently endorsed by Parliament, was presented by Romanian authorities as strictly
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Based on analyses of English-language sources, using aggregated data from Meltwater and correlated with AI-assisted narrative clustering, a distinct picture emerges—one that is complementary to the one observed in the Russian-language ecosystem described in Part I of the analysis. The overall context points to a rapid and concentrated amplification of politically sensitive narratives,
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Following the publication of the preliminary report by the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, which rejects the existence of conclusive evidence of Russian interference in the 2024 Romanian presidential elections and instead accuses the European Union of interference through mechanisms to combat disinformation, a rapid wave of converging narratives appeared online. These
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To properly understand what is happening in the western Black Sea, it is essential to place these movements in a broader geopolitical, economic, and security context that goes far beyond a simple analysis of AIS tracks. The ships we are talking about do not appear in a vacuum, and their behavior is not the result of isolated decisions, but part of
This analysis is based on data collected through Google dorking and OSINT monitoring techniques, centralized in two separate Excel files: one dedicated to Russian-language news websites available HERE and one dedicated to Russian-language Telegram channels available HERE. The main objective of the analysis is to understand how the recent protests in Romania are represented.
Despite the factual data presented in the first part of the analysis, certain Moldovan political actors promoted, immediately after the truck was detained, a series of speculative or completely false interpretations, starting with Renato Usatîi's accusation that the truck contained "at least seven Stinger launchers," a statement directly contradicted by the images analyzed by WatchDog.md,
The incident involving the detention of a truck carrying weapons at the Moldovan-Romanian border between Leușeni and Albița on the night of November 19/20, 2025, is a typical example of how a real security event can be taken over, reframed, and exploited in a complex information operation involving domestic political actors, the local press, and the controlled or influenced media ecosystem.
On the morning of September 5, 2025, the pro-Kremlin ecosystem surrounding Gagauzia and Russian-speaking audiences in the Republic of Moldova relaunched a medical hoax targeting President Maia Sandu: a so-called "certificate" issued by the Döbling clinic in Vienna allegedly attested that the head of state was suffering from schizophrenia. The document was an obvious fake, with a signature
