If you want to hear the other side of this story, I can recommend Gilbert Doctorow's books or blog. Thoroughly fascinating readings. He's a fiercely independen

If you want to hear the other side of this story, I can recommend Gilbert Doctorow's books or blog. Thoroughly fascinating readings. He's a fiercely independent yet diligent fact-based writer, a (Harvard-graduate) international affairs specialist based in Belgium and Russia. His non-conformist books "Does Russia Have A Future?" and "A Belgian Perspective on International Affairs" are eye-opening as it gives a rarely seen Russian perspective on the information wars. He doesn't deny Russian malfeasance, but he claims that the Russians are often acting in reaction to a vicious, calculated anti-Russian information campaign in the West which often operates under the guise of human rights activism. Far from being opinion pieces, he does some excellent investigative journalism with first-hand reports of people, events, press conferences, statements and sometimes blatant falsehoods attributed to Russia, providing evidence of Western "propaganda". Really helps to see the current media situation as an information war or New Cold War, rather than a simple case of "the Russians are evil and they lie all the time and hate us for no reason" which is the narrative that seems to run in the West. That Western narrative really makes no sense to the independent thinker.