A Russian ultranationalist’s digital campaign for “chaos” in Ukraine may explain the photos of mysterious crosses on roads, rooftops, and other locations described as missile markers that appeared on Ukrainian social media as Russian soldiers stormed toward Kyiv in February 2022.
Labeled "extremists" at home, independent Belarusian journalists living and working abroad worry that troubles attracting advertising and competition for media grants mean that their work encouraging Belarusians to support democracy is under threat.
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Testing of Hikvision and Dahua CCTV cameras indicated that certain models are vulnerable to hacking and, in some cases, transmit information to servers controlled by companies fully or partly owned by the Chinese government. That poses a risk of data transfers to Moscow, experts say.
Repressed in Russia, independent Russian media have multiplied in exile, posing a counterweight to Kremlin narratives that one study considers an “historically unprecedented phenomenon.”