Andrew Wilson: Four types of Russian propaganda
Women walk past Christmas decorations at Red Square, with the Kremlin's Spasskaya (Saviour) Tower seen in the background, in Moscow on Nov. 30.
Russia's propaganda operation is now so vast that it is diversifying. Its institutional channels have spread from RT TV to Sputnik multi-media, to multi-lingual YouTube channels, and through the capillaries of social media. Propaganda is carefully differentiated by national (UK, US) and language (Arabic, Francophone) audiences; the message and the tone seem infinitely variable.
