Maria Voltsichina

Overloading the Moldovan Elections

A September 2025 visit by Western media figures, facilitated by the Russian Orthodox Church, produced content alleging religious persecution in Moldova that was then amplified by Russian FIMI operations to discourage support for the pro-EU government ahead of parliamentary elections.

Persistent Infrastructure and Cross-Border Influence Operations Targeting European Elections on X

Identified 550+ coordinated inauthentic accounts on X that amplified divisive content during the October 2025 Dutch elections (at least 225 traced to Nigeria, plus Ghana and Asia), and found the same infrastructure redeployed for the April 2026 Hungarian elections to boost pro-Orbán and pro-Russian content via the recommendation algorithm.

Information Laundering in Slovakia: An Analysis of Russian Influence Operation Networks

Mapped roughly 253 disinformation outlets and over 1,800 pro-Kremlin Facebook pages in Slovakia that translate and relaunder sanctioned Russian content through local-language intermediaries, and identifies Slovakia as the EU’s weakest enforcer of sanctions against these operations.