Disinformation and the Surreal Heart of the New Russia

Back when host Cliff May was an exchange student at Leningrad State University in 1972, he believed that if the Soviet Union ever collapsed that Russia would become a free country. Unfortunately, that’s not how things turned out.

Peter Pomerantsev, Russia expert and author of the book, “Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia,” joins Cliff along with Ivana Stradner, a research fellow with FDD’s Barish Center for Media Integrity, to discuss Russia’s sophisticated disinformation tools and tactics that have enabled the infiltration of its propaganda — not only within its own borders, not only in neighboring Europe — around the world.