Gregory Asmolov

Lecturer in Global Digital Politics



Department of Digital Humanities

King's College London



Media


  “More Prominent Russians Are Starting To Speak Out Against The Kremlin's War Efforts”, by Kate Nicholson, Huffington post, Jan. 4th, 2023, https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kremlin-faces-more-backlash-from-within-russia_uk_63b59141e4b0cbfd55e56d3e 
“Russia blames soldiers’ phones for Ukrainian rocket attack which killed new recruits”, by Aliide Naylor, The Times,Jan. 4th 2023, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/russia-blames-soldiers-phones-for-ukrainian-rocket-attack-which-killed-89-hr6m58q0l 
“Russian Defeats Are Forcing Moscow To Shift From Propaganda To Crisis Communications To Insulate Putin”, by Paul Goble, Eurasia Review, December 18th, https://www.eurasiareview.com/18122022-russian-defeats-are-forcing-moscow-to-shift-from-propaganda-to-crisis-communications-to-insulate-putin-oped/ 
 “Vladimir Putin is in thrall to a distinctive brand of Russian fascism”,  Economist, Jul. 28th 2022, https://www.economist.com/briefing/2022/07/28/vladimir-putin-is-in-thrall-to-a-distinctive-brand-of-russian-fascism 
“Putin is failing in Ukraine but succeeding at oppressing Russia”, Economist, May 4th 2022, https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/05/04/putin-is-failing-in-ukraine-but-succeeding-at-oppressing-russia 
“Putin's Propaganda: Channelling the Rabid 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion'”, by Liza Rozovsky, Haaretz, Feb. 27, 2022,  https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/.premium-putin-s-propaganda-channeling-the-rabid-protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion-1.10638976 
“Rutube vs. YouTube: How the Kremlin Is Trying to Win Over Russian Viewers”, Wall Street Journal. Jul 19, 2022, https://www.wsj.com/video/series/news-explainers/rutube-vs-youtube-how-the-kremlin-is-trying-to-win-over-russian-viewers/7D360A94-3561-498B-A348-DB29952034B5 
 “What is being done to thwart Russian disinformation on Ukraine?”, The Stream, Aljazeera, March 16, 2022, https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-stream/2022/3/16/what-is-being-done-to-thwart-russian-disinformation-on-ukraine 
 “Ukraine is winning the information war against Russia, by John Thornhill, Financial Times, March 3 2022, https://www.ft.com/content/2a11a507-80a3-4da5-9eee-4dafa4a7ee6e 
 “Russians use VPNs to evade Putin’s block on the internet”, by Tom Ball, The Times,June 06 2022, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/russians-use-vpns-to-evade-putins-block-on-the-internet-ptm7jgnpz 
 “Can Russia really disconnect from the rest of the digital world?”, by Ethan Zuckerman ,Prospect Magazine,May 12, 2022, https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/can-russia-really-disconnect-from-the-rest-of-the-digital-world 
“VPN Use Spikes as Russians Seek Out Facts on Ukraine War”, by Igor Tsikhanenka, Voice of America, March 12, 2022, https://www.voanews.com/a/vpn-use-spikes-as-russians-seek-out-facts-on-ukraine-war/6482178.html 
“Governments are finding new ways to squash free expression online”, Economist, Oct 16th 2021, https://www.economist.com/international/2021/10/16/governments-are-finding-new-ways-to-squash-free-expression-online 
“Alexei Navalny protests show the power of digital ‘samizdat’ Russian dissident has exploited technology to mobilise public dissent” by John Thornhill, Financial Times,  29/01/2021 https://www.ft.com/content/35baa200-59e9-4238-b2c2-049375bdd541 
 “The Kremlin’s criticism of Alexi Navalny is making him more popular”, Economist, Feb 20th 2021, https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/02/20/the-kremlins-criticism-of-alexi-navalny-is-making-him-more-popular 
Runet, Multidimensional Politics, and Crisis. A Conversation with Dr. Gregory Asmolov, by Yana Gorohovskaia, Institute of Modern Russia, 27 May 2020, https://imrussia.org/en/opinions/3116-runet,-multidimensional-politics,-and-crisis 
“Russia's new internet firewall”, The Real Story, BBC World Service, 31 November, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csydds 
Russia’s internyet: Kremlin readies test for its ‘sovereign’ firewall, by Oliver Carroll, The Independent, 31 October, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-interenyet-kremlin-internet-sovereign- klimarev-a9178306.html 
Outlawed app emerges as key tool for Russian protesters, by Francesca Ebel, AP News, 6 September, https://www.apnews.com/34df8b282f6c4fd188a33d2fb3ff381c 
Russians are shunning state-controlled TV for YouTube, The Economist, 7 March, https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/03/09/russians-are-shunning-state- controlled-tv-for-youtube 
Russian internet controls risk domestic pushback, by Pigman L., Jane's Intelligence Review, 8 April. 
“Russia's Telegram ban has impacted Google and tests Putin's ability to control the web” by Burgess, M., Wired UK, 24 April, http://www.wired.co.uk/article/russia-google-telegram-ban-blocks-ip-address 
“Pornhub Hubbub. An attempt to police sexuality online seems out of step with Russian society” by Kupfer, M., The Moscow Times, No.5773, 22-28 September, p. 4 https://themoscowtimes.com/static/uploads/publications/2016/9/22/6d002c506da746d385969774 80545807.pdf 
“Extremists are turning Twitter and Facebook into theatres of war” by A. Rutkin, A.,  New Scientist, 7 September, https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23130903-000-extremists-wage-war-with-retweets-and- likes/ 
 “Russia’s Online Assault Evaporates Internet Freedom” by Bernard D., Voice of America, 3 June,  http://www.voanews.com/a/russias-online-assault-evaporates- internet-freedom/2804730.html 
“Putin’s gambit“, The Economist, 10 May, http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21601899-russian-presidents-unexpected-concessions- ukraine-reflect-fact-he-has-already-got 
 “Pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine learning social media 'difficult to control'”, Bell R., CBC News, 1 August, http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pro-russian-rebels- in-ukraine-learning-social-media-difficult-to-control-1.2721434 
“Digital Mappers Plot the Future of Maptivism”, Scola N., Techpresident, 3 June,  http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/digital-mappers-plot-future-maptivism-0 

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