The Kremlin School of Bloggers - An Origin Story

As we enter another year as a target nation of an undeclared Information War, it is important to expose the origins and truth behind ongoing psychological attacks. Truth is always worth knowing

As I revisited my 2019 ‘Warfighting’ thread’ on the 2016 NATO report titled “The Handbook of Russian Information Warfare,” I recalled how in 2009, the Russian government announced the debut of the ‘Kremlin School of Bloggers.’ It was the prototype to what we now refer to as the Russian troll army.

The misshaping of reality by paid Russian web brigades wa…