Funding: Own budget (6), Public broadcaster / state media (3)
'PolitStacker' (Политукладчик) — weekly 40-minute satirical political show claimed to be generated by AI, featuring AI-generated host 'Natasha' (modeled on presenter Nataliya Metlina) and AI-generated deepfake videos of world leaders including Trump, Zelensky, Macron and von der Leyen in fabricated scenarios; Zvezda describes it as 'world's first television program created by artificial intelligence'
Russian state-affiliated fact-checking platform (run with ANO 'Dialog Regiony' and HSE; partners TASS, Lenta.ru and 360tv) that combines classical fact-checking with the 'Zephyr' (Зефир) AI system — monitoring audiovisual material, including deepfakes, via speech transcription, algorithmic evaluation and AI analysis, plus tag/keyword/geolocation monitoring across channels.
Custom-trained neural network (Charon project) scans public death announcements to identify Russian military casualties, tagging war-related deaths and extracting attributes (age, region, deployment date) to build a searchable casualty database shared with journalists and researchers
AI machine translation of news articles from Russian into English, with human editorial review of every draft before publication; disclosed on all AI-translated articles: ""translated from Russian using an AI model configured to follow our strict editorial standards
Neural networks used by journalists for rewriting news feeds, creating headlines, transcribing interviews and automatically correcting materials; hybrid model in which AI handles routine tasks while journalists add context
AI tools for monitoring public opinion and social media, identifying emerging trends to accelerate preparation of analytical and investigative materials