Peter Pomerantsev: How to beat Vladimir Putin in the battle for hearts and eyeballs
Russia's President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with children at the Moskvarium Center of Oceanography and Marine Biology in the All-Russia Exhibiton Centre (VDNKh), a public park and exhibition space in Moscow, on Aug. 4.
The West is belatedly waking up to the power of the Kremlin's media machine. The supreme commander of NATO called the annexation of Crimea "the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen".