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Taming the Machines: How Russian Propaganda is Training AI Language Models

Anna Andreyeva on how Kremlin-aligned disinformation is seeping from obscure websites into the responses of popular chatbots
Riddle Political News Week
Battle for the Municipalities
Andrey Pertsev sums up the political week (24−28 November)
Andrey Pertsev sums up the political week (24−28 November)
By Andrey Pertsev
Riddle Economic News Week
Unloved Labor Lost
Nicholas Trickett with the economic summary of the week (November 24−28)
Nicholas Trickett with the economic summary of the week (November 24−28)
By Nick Trickett
Kadyrov’s desired successor comes of age. What now?

Harold Chambers on the persistence of structural obstacles to a direct Kadyrov family succession
Russia in the New Syria: From Indispensable Ally to Auxiliary Partner

Nikita Smagin on how Damascus is closing the door on a return to Russian dominance
Witnesses of Chaos

Anton Barbashin on the Five Postulates of Russia’s «Chaos Theory»
A Preview of the Caucasus to Come

Roman Chernikov on how the interests of Moscow and Washington unexpectedly converged on the Caucasian rails — and why this doesn’t make life any easier for Yerevan
Chronicle of a Deal Missed

Anton Barbashin on what Trump wanted from the Kremlin, what Moscow offered in return—and why a year of the most intense Russia-U.S. talks in decades ended back at square one
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Authors
  • Anna Andreeva

    Journalist-analyst in the field of digital technologies
  • Harold Chambers

    Analyst on conflict, nationalism, and security in the North Caucasus
  • Nikita Smagin

    Expert on Iran, Islamism and Russia’s foreign policy in the Middle East, author of the book «Iran for Everyone: Paradoxes of Life in an Autocracy under…
  • Anton Barbashin

    Editorial director at Riddle, political analyst
  • Roman Chernikov

    Political scientist
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