Andrew Wilson: Russia’s ‘nudge’ propaganda
A picture taken on Sept. 14, 2015 shows the Kremlin's Spasskaya (Saviour) Tower in Moscow.
Ever since the beginning of the crisis between Russia and Ukraine in 2013 there has been much discussion about the power of Russian propaganda in the West, and particularly within the EU. Russia has been able to attract a wide range of sympathisers across the political spectrum. But the way in which Russia exploits these other voices is different from how it operates at home. For more than a decade now, domestic Russian politics has been dominated by actors, proxies, cynics and fakes.
