With the help of news services like RT and Ruptly, the Kremlin is seeking to reshape the way the world thinks about Russia. And it has been highly successful: Vladimir Putin has won the propaganda war over Ukraine and the West is divided.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Spiegel Online: How Russia is winning the propaganda war
A man holds a portrait of late Soviet leader Lenin as pro-Russian supporters take part in a demonstration rally in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on May 31, 2014. Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of unleashing a mass propaganda campaign to persuade global powers not to recognise an election that gave the presidency to a pro-Western tycoon. The months-long fight for future of the ex-Soviet nation -- splintered between a more nationalist west and a heavily Russified southeast -- has killed more than 300 people and resurrected the geopolitical barriers of the Cold War. AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV
