Skip to content

Event

Russia launches disinformation campaign ahead of State Duma elections

The Russian authorities have initiated a disinformation campaign related to the State Duma elections scheduled for September 18-20. According to the Center for Strategic Communications, around 200 resources are spreading information about alleged Western interference in the elections, attempting to create an illusion of legitimacy.

In brief

  • State Duma elections are scheduled for September 18-20, 2026
  • About 200 FIMI resources published 5,500 materials about Ukraine
  • 220 publications promoted the thesis of Western attempts to discredit the voting
Covered by 2 of 6 media groups
  • Budget 1 source
  • Public money not in the collected reports
  • Media business not in the collected reports
  • Big capital 1 source
  • Readers and grants not in the collected reports
  • Undisclosed not in the collected reports

No newsrooms from these groups in the collected reports: public money, media business, readers and grants, undisclosed.

What are media groups?

Share of reports by media group
GroupShareCount
Budget
  • Actor 2
67%2 items
Big capital
  • Newsroom 1
33%1 item

How we count media groups — Methodology

Who the outlets write for
  • community 0
  • region 0
  • country 2
  • world 0
Channels
  • Websites 2
  • TV and radio 1

How we measure speed, distance and channels

Report an error

Comments

Loading comments…

Allow visit statistics? PostHog keeps them (EU servers) under a random browser id — no name, no account; kept for 12 months. Vercel Speed Insights measures page speed, with no id. The site works the same without. Details