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Current Events: Crisis in Ukraine

This guide attempts to provide information about the current crisis in the Ukraine.

Justin Harrison

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News and Resources

NewsGuard
NewsGuard has identified 172 Russia-Ukraine disinformation sites and is tracking the top false narratives that they are publishing about the war in Ukraine
Ukraine government website countering Russian invasion narrative
Includes live updates of the state of Russian invasion. The information on this website is verified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
StopFake
StopFake identifies cases of fake information about events in Ukraine, including exposing fake videos and communications as well as offer informed commentary.
Euromaidan Press
Euromaidan Press is an online English-language independent newspaper launched by Ukrainian volunteers in 2014. Euromaiden Press claims to "collect, rely on, and promote non-partisan, non-religious, unbiased information in [its] fight against the Russian disinformation campaign."

Russia's long history with propaganda - eBooks from UVic Libraries' Collection

Is Russia Fascist? Unravelling Propaganda East and West by Marlene Laruelle
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781501754159
Publication Date: 2021
Weak Strongman by Timothy Frye
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780691212463
Publication Date: 2021-04-06
The Russians Are Coming, Again by Jeremy Kuzmarov; John Marciano
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781583676943
Publication Date: 2018-05-22
Russia's Dead End by Andrei A. Kovalev; Steven I. Levine (Translator); Peter Reddaway (Foreword by)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781640122338
Publication Date: 2019-10-01
Putin's Propaganda Machine by Marcel H. Van Herpen
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781442253612
Publication Date: 2015-10-01
The Dark Double: US Media, Russia, and the Politics of Values by Andrei P. Tsygankov
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 0190919353
Publication Date: 2019
Freedom of Speech in Russia by Daphne Skillen
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781317659884
Publication Date: 2016-11-25
Politics of Visibility and Belonging by Emil Edenborg
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781351712941
Publication Date: 2017-07-14
Russia's Liberal Media by Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1315300192
Publication Date: 2018-03-21
Western Mainstream Media and the Ukraine Crisis by Oliver Boyd-Barrett
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781317196006
Publication Date: 2016-10-04
Russia Today and Conspiracy Theories by Ilya Yablokov; Precious N. Chatterje-Doody
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780367224684
Publication Date: 2021-06-08

Books on Propaganda at UVic Libraries

The SAGE Handbook of Propaganda by PaulBaines, Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, Nancy Snow
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781526477170
Publication Date: 2020
How Propaganda Became Public Relations: Foucault and the Corporate Government of the Public by Cory Wimberly
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781000753530
Publication Date: 2019-11-07
Information Warfare in the Age of Cyber Conflict by Christopher Whyte (Editor); A. Trevor Thrall (Editor); Brian M. Mazanec (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780429470509
Publication Date: 2020-07-28
Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media by Eileen Culloty; Jane Suiter
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781003054252
Publication Date: 2021-02-07
The World Information War by Timothy Clack (Editor); Robert Johnson (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781003046905
Publication Date: 2021-05-10
Negative Exposures by Margaret Hillenbrand
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781478006190
Publication Date: 2020-03-06
Propaganda: Ideas, Discourses, and its Legitimization by Hailong Liu
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780429353536
Publication Date: 2019-11-21
ISIS Propaganda : A Full-spectrum Extremist Message by Stephane J. Baele, Katharine A. Boyd, Travis G. Coan
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 0190932473
Publication Date: 2020

Fake News and Democracy- ebooks from UVic Libraries' Collection

Democracy and Fake News by Serena Giusti (Editor); Elisa Piras (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781003037385
Publication Date: 2020-12-29
Elections, Protest, and Authoritarian Regime Stability by Regina Smyth
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781108893251
Publication Date: 2020-10-16
Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region by Scott Radnitz
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780197573563
Publication Date: 2021
Digital Democracy, Social Media and Disinformation by Petros Iosifidis; Nicholas Nicoli
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781000299786
Publication Date: 2020-12-30
The lands in between : Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War by Mitchell A. Orenstein
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780190936846
Publication Date: 2019
RussiaGate and Propaganda by Oliver Boyd-Barrett
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780429260537
Publication Date: 2019-07-04
Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election (U.S. Government Official Edition) by Robert Mueller, III
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2019
Hybrid Warfare: Security and Asymmetric Conflict in International Relations by Mikael Weissmann, Niklas Nilsson, Per Thunholm and Björn Palmertz
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781788317795
Publication Date: 2021
Extremist Propaganda in Social Media by Michael Erbschloe
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781351027366
Publication Date: 2018-06-28
Why We Elect Narcissists and Sociopaths--And How We Can Stop by Bill Eddy
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781523085279
Publication Date: 2019-05-21
Human Rights in a Time of Populism by Gerald L. Neuman (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781108751551
Publication Date: 2020-04-22
China's Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia by Daniel S. Markey
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780190087883
Publication Date: 2020
Follow the Leader: Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman by Laura Tingle
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781760640705
Publication Date: 2018
Putinomics by Chris Miller
Call Number: ebooks
ISBN: 9781469640679
Publication Date: 2018-02-08
Making the World Safe for Dictatorship by Alexander Dukalskis
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780197520161
Publication Date: 2021

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