Project Team at the BASEES Annual Conference, 10-12 April 2026

Members of the (Mis)Translating Deceit project and its affiliates presented papers at the annual conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, held in Birmingham on 10–12 April 2026.

The following papers, based on the project’s findings, were delivered:

Maxim Alyukov (University of Manchester), Mykola Makhortykh (University of Bern), Alexandr Voronovici (Universities of Manchester and Warwick) and Maryna Sydorova (University of Bern), ‘LLMs Grooming or Data Voids? LLM-powered Chatbots, Information Gaps, and Kremlin Disinformation’

Maxim Alyukov presenting his panel. Photo Credit: Florence Ertel

Vera Tolz (University of Manchester), ‘Disinformation Discourse as a Practice of Influence in Anglophone and Russophone Contexts: From the Nineteenth Century to the End of the Cold War’

Vera Tolz presenting her panel. Photo Credit: Yiqing Chen

Alexandr Voronovici (Universities of Manchester and Warwick), ‘Democracy, Truth, and Lies: Political Discourses and Media Coverage of the 2025 Moldovan Election’

Alexandr Voronovici presenting his panel. Photo Credit: Catalina Catana and Sorcha Scarff

Yiqing Chen (University of Manchester) and Weizhou Wang (University of Manchester), ‘Comparing Chinese and Russian Narratives: Kremlin and Beijing Messaging on Weibo During the Russo-Ukrainian War’

Yiqing Chen and Weizhou Wang presenting their panel. Photo Credit: Vera Tolz