Has the plague broken out of a laboratory in Siberia? At present it is unclear – but what is evident is that many Russians will believe the rumour mill over Vladimir Putin’s government, underlining a central weakness of a regime that is increasingly built on censorship and lies. The Kremlin is still being guarded with the facts, apparently wanting to prevent panic. This is a familiar and counter-productive pattern: in practice, gossip and conspiracy theory quickly fill the information vacuum. As a Russian journalist told The i Paper, frustrated that they were not being allowed to cover the story for...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
