Russia has long been waging operations against democracies using all of the asymmetric tools ASD tracks—information manipulation, cyberattacks, malign finance, civil society subversion, and state economic coercion. The Kremlin’s geographic scope in conducting operations to undermine democracy continues to expand and its tactics continue to evolve. Find ASD’s work on Russia’s attempts to interfere in democracies on this page.
Interference Matters
If at First You Don’t Succeed (at Repressing Dissent) Try, Try Again
Hamilton Toplines: Jan 11–17, 2023
Hamilton 2.0Â is an interactive tool that monitors the outputs of Chinese and Russian state media and government officials across a range of social media platforms. The weekly report provides a summary analysis of the most salient topics and narrative [...]
Hamilton Toplines: Jan 4–10, 2023
Hamilton 2.0Â is an interactive tool that monitors the outputs of Chinese and Russian state media and government officials across a range of social media platforms. The weekly report provides a summary analysis of the most salient topics and narrativ [...]
Hamilton Toplines: December 28, 2022–January 3, 2023
Hamilton 2.0Â is an interactive tool that monitors the outputs of Chinese and Russian state media and government officials across a range of social media platforms. The weekly report provides a summary analysis of the most salient topics and narrative [...]
David Salvo Discusses Efforts to Bring Home Paul Whelan from Russia on Fox News
David Salvo, deputy director at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF and a former State Department official in Russia, joined LiveNOW from FOX on Tuesday, December 13, 2022. He discussed why Russia did not include Paul Whelan in the Brittney G [...]
Hamilton Toplines: December 7–13, 2022
Hamilton 2.0Â is an interactive tool that monitors the outputs of Chinese and Russian state media and government officials across a range of social media platforms. The weekly report provides a summary analysis of the most salient topics and narrativ [...]
David Salvo Speaks on Brittney Griner’s Release on Newsy
David Salvo, deputy director at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined Newsy to discuss the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner, who had been sentenced to serve a nine year sentence in a Russian penal colony. Griner returned to the Uni [...]
Hamilton Toplines: November 30–December 6, 2022
Hamilton 2.0Â is an interactive tool that monitors the outputs of Chinese and Russian state media and government officials across a range of social media platforms. The weekly report provides a summary analysis of the most salient topics and narrativ [...]
Bret Schafer Joins Background Briefing to Discuss How Top US Conservatives Push Pro-Kremlin Narratives on Ukraine
Bret Schafer joins Background Briefing with Ian Masters to examine who is giving aid and comfort to the enemy or who is a useful idiot and expand on his quotes in an article at The Guardian “Top US conservatives pushing Russian spin on Ukraine war, [...]
Oh, the Irony…Russia Spreads Disinformation about Polish Annexation of Western Ukrainian Regions
Days after an errant Ukrainian missile tragically killed two civilians in Poland, Russian state-sponsored media began reporting on a strange conspiracy theory—that Poland wants to annex three counties in western Ukraine. ASD at GMF’s Yandex Dashboar [...]
Hamilton Toplines: November 16–29, 2022
Hamilton 2.0Â is an interactive tool that monitors the outputs of Chinese and Russian state media and government officials across a range of social media platforms. The weekly report provides a summary analysis of the most salient topics and narrativ [...]
Hamilton Monthly Report: October 2022
This report highlights and analyzes key trends and takeaways from data collected by the Hamilton 2.0 dashboard during the previous month. Unlike ASD’s weekly Hamilton reports, which analyze the main topics and themes promoted by monitored Russian an [...]
Moscow’s Mixed Messages: How Setbacks in Ukraine Split Messaging among Once-Unified Kremlin Loyalists
While Russian information operators in government and state-sponsored media presented a relatively united front at the onset of the renewed invasion of Ukraine, setbacks during the war have caused significant divergences in messaging. Ukraine’s succ [...]