A series of events accused of spreading Russian propaganda in Italy have caused a row in the country, with the Ukrainian embassy urging local authorities to cancel them. In the coming weeks, several conferences featuring Russian propagandists are scheduled to take place throughout Italy, one of which includes the far-right Kremlin ideologue Alexander Dugin, whose views helped shape the ideas behind the Ukraine invasion. Another “conference-exhibition” in Modena, in the Emilia-Romagna region, focuses on the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol and is titled The Rebirth of Mariupol. The website of the association Russia Emilia Romagna, which organised the event, describes...