Report launch: How Russia targets its messaging in the Global South

  • Thu, September 17, 2026 • 10:00 am ET
  • Virtual event

The latest report in the Atlantic Council’s Russia Tomorrow series assesses the most prominent themes that Moscow uses to target audiences in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and beyond.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 challenged much of the common Western understanding of Russia. How can the world better understand Russia? What are the steps forward for Western policy? The Eurasia Center’s “Russia Tomorrow” series seeks to reevaluate conceptions of Russia today and better prepare for its future tomorrow.

On Thursday, September 17 at 10:00 a.m. ET, the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center hosted an event launching the newest report in its pathbreaking Russia Tomorrow series examining how Russia targets its propaganda across the Global South amid its war against Ukraine.

The latest Russia Tomorrow report, New voices, old friends: How Russia targets its messaging in the Global South by author and journalist Casey Michel, assesses the most prominent themes that Moscow uses to target audiences in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and beyond. Have the Kremlin’s information campaigns across the Global South succeeded or failed?

Brian Whitmore, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, moderates a virtual report launch discussion on Moscow’s efforts to cultivate support abroad.

Speakers

Mikhail Komin
Fellow,
Center for European Policy Analysis

Casey Michel
Author and journalist

Philip Obaji Jr.
Correspondent, Nigeria,
The Daily Beast

Katerina Sedova
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Eurasia Center,
Atlantic Council

Moderated by

Brian Whitmore
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Eurasia Center,
Atlantic Council

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