EADaily; a worker bee in the Kremlin’s information war

The Russian news agency EurAsia Daily, abbreviated EADaily, was founded in 2015. It states that its main activity is to give an objective overview of politics and social processes in Eurasia. The editorial office is based in Moscow, with correspondents and observers in several of Russia’s neighboring countries: Armenia, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, as well as in Russia’s dependent regions such as Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria.

The agency has no correspondent in Estonia. The news is collected from the Russian-language media in Estonia (ERR, Postimees, Delfi), as well as from local Kremlin propaganda publications such as Baltnews.

The agency publishes its news on its website eadaily.com

Eadaily.com fills the roll of an intermediary in the three-story structure of the Kremlin’s media machine.

Level I is picking sites that pick up local topics of interest to Kremlin propaganda. For example, Baltnews or Eesti Sputnik, which has now ceased operations.

Level II, intermediary sites, which collect such topics and distribute them to large Russian publications. As an example, in addition to EADaily, Regnum.

Level III is the amplifiers that channel the mediated news to a large audience. These include the most read portals in Russia and the most watched TV channels.

What does EADaily write about Estonia?

The agency often publishes stories about Estonia, but they clearly are not objective. Topics that match the Kremlin’s narratives are picked up. EADaily gives the impression that Estonia is a Russophobic Nazi state.

We moved EADaily to Propastop’s black list

The black list brings together a group of media publications hostile to Estonia, the content of which cannot be considered as balanced press. In the case of the Russian media, the criteria for inclusion on the list is the content of the publications, the connection of important people with the Kremlin’s system of power, as well as the restrictions imposed on them by Estonian allies.

The main reason for moving EADaily onto the black list is because of the agency’s content and editing style. A strong argument for the move is also the close connection with Regnum, where several people in key positions are associated with the Kremlin, such as the editor-in-chief, Modest Kolerov.

We call for the publications on the black list not to be quoted or for the news published there not to be cited without a clear overview of the propagandistic nature of the publication. We also encourage Estonian companies to stop buying ads with sites on the black list.

I know that the story here is really about something unrelated to Ukraine, but you might not want to use it as a source. Just promotes its visibility, probably increases its ranking in stuff like Google Pagerank, and if the information is reliable, my guess is that it'll probably be covered by other sources.

EDIT: The Moscow Times has a story up:

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/09/russia-probes-explosion-on-oil-tanker-a87921

Or:

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/blast-partially-sinks-tanker-at-russian-port-of-ust-luga