Fake news stories. Doctored photographs. Staged TV clips. Armies of paid trolls. Has Putin's Russia developed a new kind of information warfare – fought in the 'psychosphere' rather than on the battlefield? Or is it all just a giant bluff?
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A woman sews with a sewing machine as she watches a TV broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual press conference, held in Moscow, in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek on Dec. 18, 2014.