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## Peter Pomerantsev


Pomerantsev is a co-founder of [The Reckoning Project](https://www.thereckoningproject.com/) and senior fellow at SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of [_How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler_](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/peter-pomerantsev/how-to-win-an-information-war/9781541774728/?lens=publicaffairs) and [_This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality_](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1541762118/ref=as%5Fli%5Fqf%5Fasin%5Fil%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=time037-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1541762118&linkId=8de6b92b889b94ef1c7327960b053098).


## Peter Pomerantsev


* ![RUSSIA-US-UKRAINE-CONFLICT](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b9cfc6dbba21805/6998c900c8dcb41029b50600/GettyImages-2229146771.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 14, 2025  
### [The Real Danger of the Trump-Putin Summit](https://time.com/7309587/trump-putin-alaska-summit-ukraine-war/)  
It's crucial that Russia's occupation of eastern Ukraine is never normalized.  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Dovhenke village residents return home trying to live amid traces of the war](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd9f11ac38cfb2cc/698a55cbb3fce345360cd0f2/GettyImages-2135347220.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 20, 2024  
### [Russia's War Against Evangelicals](https://time.com/6969273/russias-war-against-evangelicals/)  
Putin's Russia has led an at times brutal campaign against evangelicals inside Russia and in the occ...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![President Putin Attends Expanded Annual Board Of The Interior Ministry At Russian Police HQ](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltffa3e5f8c27eaa41/698a5568cabb1d50bbe53fda/GettyImages-2126120910.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 6, 2024  
### [Do Russians Believe Putin's Propaganda?](https://time.com/6964053/russian-putin-propaganda/)  
After the mall terrorist attack, Putin made bogus claims. Peter Pomeransev on how we need to rethink...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Delmer Speaks To Germany](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt400e4056067563ba/698a54ee86f68e8af66f4efa/GettyImages-50858897.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 18, 2024  
### [How to Defeat Nazi Propaganda](https://time.com/6957547/sefton-delmer-world-war-two-propaganda/)  
The strange tale of a fake Nazi radio station that helped win the war. And what it can teach us abou...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Senate Votes On Advancing Foreign Aid Package In Rare Sunday Session](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d887595ac3c2753/698a48dbdb2987ab9f26a3f9/GettyImages-1996074428.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 26, 2024  
### [Ukraine Is a War About America's Power](https://time.com/6817355/fate-of-ukraine-war-america-power/)  
What kind of strength does America want to show the world? To let Ukraine be destroyed or to protect...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
* ![Tribute to Prigozhin in Moscow](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt710e3752d835faa6/698a3fd7d075333a69e6e534/GettyImages-1622642889.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 29, 2023  
### [Prigozhin Is Dead. Russian Gangster Culture Lives On](https://time.com/6309039/prigozhin-death-russian-prison-culture/)  
Prigozhin was both a model for Russian criminals and a manifestation of a fundamental truth about Ru...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Kyiv after missile strikes knocked out power on Oct. 31, 2022.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7b493cbc61da74bb/698a390a4ee262044f31af86/ukraine-war-energy-military-strike.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 21, 2022  
### [Autocrats Are Weaponizing Globalization. Ukraine Is Where They Must Be Stopped](https://time.com/6242912/ukraine-war-globalized-autocrats/)  
To secure Ukraine’s sovereignty—and our own—we need to break the power of networked authoritarians  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![A woman whose house was destroyed in an attack stays in a bomb shelter in Krasnohorivka, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on Sept. 29, 2022. Residents of the city had to live in bomb shelters due to the ongoing war as power and gas disruption continues.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc8ab439f9dc37d99/698a362886f68ee4d66f1b38/putin-ukraine-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 4, 2022  
### [Russia Wants to Lock Ukraine Back in the Soviet Cellar](https://time.com/6219200/what-russia-wants-ukraine/)  
Russia wants to imprison a whole country, to trap and confine Ukraine in Putin's cellar, both metaph...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![A woman walks along an empty street in Bucha, Ukraine, April 1, 2022.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0d6f0b6d95249570/698a30b586f68ec7516f1181/ukraine-bucha-war-crimes-russia-past.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 6, 2022  
### [Ukraine Is Our Past and Our Future](https://time.com/6164810/ukraine-is-our-past-and-our-future/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![TOPSHOT-RUSSIA-UKRAINE-CONFLICT-DEMO](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0f49eb595cdccade/698a2fa4457a522edad6631a/GettyImages-1238902233.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 4, 2022  
### [What Putin’s Nazi Talk Reveals About His Plans for Ukraine](https://time.com/6154853/putins-nazi-talk-reveals-plans-for-ukraine/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
* ![Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in the Donbass, Moscow, Russian Federation - 24 Feb 2022](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltacd26fc7c8438d0a/698a22c8b21a9cd9c3505bfe/shutterstock_editorial_EPASELECT_24_Feb_0900_UTC_12820413B.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 25, 2022  
### [Putin's Attack on Ukraine Is an Attempt to Delay His Own Inevitable Demise](https://time.com/6151377/putin-ukraine-attack-dictator/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Vladimir Putin](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5071ece5c530dae0/698a21ae22fb85e9e2e2d0bb/Putin-Ukraine-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 22, 2022  
### [The West Doesn't Understand Putin's Ukraine Obsession](https://time.com/6140996/putin-ukraine-threats/)  
Putin's obsessive threats to Ukraine can't only be understood on geopolitical terms, and should shap...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Russian President Vladimir Putin attends Russian-Kazakh Regional Forum in Omsk](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd41d50f0f81e5daa/698a059ab21a9cf481502a4b/information-war-putin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 9, 2019  
### [We Need to Stop Thinking of Conflict With Russia as an 'Information War'](https://time.com/5722805/rethink-information-war-russia/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)

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