Dr. Julien Nocetti is a senior associate fellow at IFRI (French Institute for International Relations) and an affiliate researcher at GEODE Centre (Geopolitics of the Datasphere – University Paris 8). Julien was previously an associate professor in International Relations and Strategic Studies at Saint-Cyr Military Academy between 2019-2023, and a research fellow at IFRI between 2009-2019. His expertise deals with the intersection between technology and global politics, most particularly cyber conflict, information warfare, and the geopolitics of artificial intelligence. He is also a specialist in Russia’s foreign and cyber policies.

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Russia's informational influence strategy has undergone profound changes since February 24, 2022. The large-scale invasion of Ukraine and the reactions it generated have shaken a composite system of influence built up since the mid-2000s with the creation, in 2005, of the Russia Today channel. If this media and its sister channel Sputnik have been banned from the European Union, several online disinformation campaigns continue to be run by Russia to flood the information space in democratic countries with its reading of events, such as the Döppelganger operation. Between sanctions, blockades, closures, circumvention, fragmentation and restructuring, this contribution, based on a mixed qualitative methodology combining traditional ethnographic and digital research, seeks to examine the endogenous and exogenous reshaping of this media and information ecosystem over the past two years. What has become of the main players in Russia's informational influence since February 2022? How is this system adapting to the new information environment generated by the invasion of Ukraine, both structurally and in terms of the content produced?