‘One crap-news per week’: How Kremlin propaganda works on VKontakte social media platforms

How government-managed public social media accounts in Russia were turned into a propaganda machineOriginally published on Global VoicesPutin's Young Army in Crimea on May 9, 2022. Image by Soviet Ministrov Respubliki Crym via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0. This article was originally published in Russian on March 18, 2025, on Novaya Vkladka. Global Voices translated the article, edited it for clarity, and is republishing it with permission from …