March 24, 2022 – Professor Vera Tolz contributed to the roundtable ‘Responses to the Invasion of Ukraine’ in the London Review of Books.
March 15, 2022 – Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody was interviewed on BBC Radio Three Counties (from 1h 42:00).
March 12, 2022 – Professor Vera Tolz took part in the Listening Post programme ‘Censorship, arrests, shutdowns: Putin crushes Russian media’ on Al Jazeera.
March 10, 2022 – Professor Vera Tolz was interviewed for the article ‘Vladimir Putin: The world of sport has shunned the Russian president. So what?’ on CNN.
March 8, 2022 – Professor Stephen Hutchings has spoken to talkRadio (the Ian Collins Show) about Russian war propaganda.
March 6, 2022 – Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody was quoted in this Daily Star article.
March 6, 2022 – Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody was quoted in the article ‘Putin nightmare: ‘Worried’ Kremlin scrambles to cover up horrors of Ukraine war‘.
March 4, 2022 – Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody took part in the ‘Secrets and Spies’ podcast.
March 4, 2022 – Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody wrote an opinion piece for The Express.
March 3, 2022 – Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody was quoted in the Coda article ‘Putin’s past actions point to his sharpening authoritarianism‘.
March 3, 2022 – Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland (from 2:50).
March 2, 2022 – Professor Vera Tolz provided a comment for the Atlantic article ‘Why the Cultural Boycott of Russia Matters’.
March 1, 2022 – Dr Vitaly Kazakov appeared on the London Sport Show, BBC Radio London to discuss international sports bans on Russia (from 11:50).
March 1, 2022 – Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody wrote an article ‘Ukraine war: RT coverage is biased and misleading but banning the network may not be a good idea‘ for The Conversation UK.
March 1, 2022 – Dr Vitaly Kazakov was interviewed on the BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast Programme (from 1h 53:20).
March 1, 2022 – Professor Vera Tolz was quoted in this Daily Mail article.
February 28, 2022 – Professor Stephen Hutchings was quoted in Der Standard.
February 28, 2022 – Professor Stephen Hutchings was quoted in the Slovakian newspaper Dennik.
February 26, 2022 – Professor Stephen Hutchings was quoted in the Austrian newspaper Kleine Zeitung.
February 25, 2022 – Dr Vitaly Kazakov took part in the BBC Radio Manchester programme (from 3h 11:50).
February 25, 2022 – Professor Stephen Hutchings contributed to the Guardian article ‘RT news channel in spotlight in UK over pro-Russia slant on Ukraine crisis’.
February 24, 2022 – Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody was interviewed on BBC Radio Three Counties (from 3:37).
February 23, 2022 – Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody was interviewed on BBC Radio Wiltshire (from 2h: 20m).
September 3, 2020 – Professor Stephen Hutchings was interviewed by the Turkish broadcaster TRT Haber about the poisoning of Alexei Navalny.
May 29, 2020 – Professor Stephen Hutchings and Professor Vera Tolz took part in an online seminar “Misinformation and Conspiracy Theories”. The discussion was part of a webinar series ‘Doing Things Differently‘, which brought The University of Manchester’s Humanities researchers together to discuss how COVID-19 and lockdown are changing the way we think about society, politics, the environment and everyday life. Watch the recording here.
17 March, 2020 – Professor Stephen Hutchings provided a comment to the author of the article “Russian media blames Britain for the coronavirus outbreak”, published in The Daily Mail.
14 December, 2019 – Professor Stephen Hutchings was interviewed via Skype on ‘The Globe’, the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s global affairs programme. He discussed the recent face-to-face talks between the leaders of Russia and Ukraine.
11 November, 2019 – Professor Vera Tolz gave an interview to Teemu Oivo of the Russian Media Lab Network. She discusses our project, RT’s 1917 social media campaign #1917Live, and the shift in narrative by UK press on RT and Russia more generally. You can read the interview in full here.
27 June, 2019 – Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody was quoted in Madeline Roache’s Time article “Georgians Have Now Been Protesting Russian Interference for a Week. Here’s Why”.
14 June, 2019 – Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody appeared on BBC Wiltshire to discuss RT pursuing a judicial review of Ofcom’s December 2018 ruling against them.
24 May, 2019 – Dr Rhys Crilley talked about his work in an interview for the “Strategies Of Persuasion: Russian Propaganda in the Algorithmic Age” team.
25 April, 2019 – Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody was interviewed on Russian foreign and security policy, public diplomacy and propaganda by a fact-checking project Polygraph.info.
20 April, 2019 – Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody elaborated on her research and our project in her interview for the “Strategies Of Persuasion: Russian Propaganda in the Algorithmic Age” team.
21 December, 2018 – Professor Stephen Hutchings, Dr Rhys Crilley, and Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody wrote a blog post “Ofcom’s Latest Ruling On RT Is More Significant Than You Might Think” for HuffPost.
8 November, 2018 – Professor Stephen Hutchings participated in the media conference ‘Screening Protest’ at Stockholm University. A link to the web article about the event can be found here.
13 October, 2018 – Professor Tolz participated in a panel entitled ‘Russia and the West: A New Cold War?’ in the Scottish Parliament. You can listen to the panel via podcast and you can find information about the Festival of Politics event here.
9 October, 2018 – Professor Vera Tolz appeared on BBC Newsnight to discuss the revelations made by The Insider Russia and Bellingcat about the true identities of the Skripal poisoning suspects, in a segment about open source investigative reporting.
17 September, 2018 – MailOnline quoted Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody and Dr Rhys Crilley’s work in their coverage of the Salisbury affair.
15 September, 2018 – Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody and Dr Rhys Crilley published an article “How badly did Russia’s interview with the Skripal poisoning suspects backfire?” in the Washington Post.
14 June, 2018 – Dr Vitaly Kazakov published an article “After the Doping and Hooliganism Scandals, Russia Needs a Good World Cup” in the Independent. The article previously appeared in the Conversation.
6 June 2018 – Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody contributed to the Global Development Institute’s Rising Powers Special: The BRICs Uncovered podcast.
24 May, 2018 – Roundtable discussion – ‘From streaming the revolution to fighting fake news: Ukraine, EU, UK and Russia Today’, Professor Stephen Hutchings and Professor Vera Tolz, at the workshop ‘EU-Ukraine Quo Vadis: Evidence-based Politics, Policy and Practice’, The University of Manchester.
May 2018 – Professor Stephen Hutchings was quoted in two articles for The Guardian by Jim Waterson: Arkady Babchenko’s fake murder ‘plays into the hands’ of Moscow, (31 May, 2018) and Clickbait and Skripal jokes: Russia’s RT thrives online, (3 May, 2018).
6 April, 2018 – Professor Vera Tolz and Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody wrote an opinion piece for Newsweek. This article–entitled “Four things you need to know about Russian media manipulation strategies”–also appeared on The Conversation.
16 March, 2018 – Professor Hutchings and Dr Chatterje-Doody gave a presentation entitled “Russia’s relations with the west: the media” at an event called ‘East/West Governance in Context: The Red Demiurge Reconsidered’. The event took place at Manchester International Law Centre (MILC).
February, 2018 – Professor Stephen Hutchings advised a team of BBC Radio 5 Live reporters about the current media environment in Russia in advance of their trip to Moscow to cover the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup.
18 November, 2017 – Professor Stephen Hutchings was interviewed in an article appearing in the Wired Magazine.
14 October, 2017 – Professor Stephen Hutchings was quoted in an article for the Observer.
25 September, 2017 – Professor Vera Tolz took part in ‘Beyond Belief: Belief and Unbelief in Russia’, BBC Radio 4.
September 2017 – Professor Marie Gillespie and Professor Stephen Hutchings were interviewed as part of the research for The New York Times article ‘RT, Sputnik and Russia’s New Theory of War’ (link below).
‘Reframing Russia for the Global Mediapshere: From Cold War to “Information War”?’ 