How big is the Kremlin’s obsession with Ukraine? Spoiler: very big
By EU vs Disinfo
It is old news that Russian state-controlled media outlets have little focus on Russia and that they are almost obsessed with...
Kremlin Watch Briefing: The UK leads the fight against disinformation in Eastern Europe
Topics of the Week
The UK has launched a £10m programme that helps a network of Eastern European groups combat Russian and Russia-supported far-right disinformation.
Pompeo and Lavrov fail to...
Fake: UN Tribunal Decision on Captured Ukrainian Soldiers IS Illegitimate
The United Nations Maritime Tribunal issued a “wrongful decision” regarding the Russian seizure of Ukrainian naval vessels and sailors in the Kerch Strait in...
Fake: IMF Killed Ukrainian Economy
Russian and Ukrainian media were busy this week disseminating a statement made by Ukrainian MP Vadim Rabinovich who said that the International Monetary Fund...
Fake: Kerch Strait Incidents = Ukrainian Provocation
Last week Russian media yet again called its November 25, 2018 seizure of three Ukrainian naval vessels a provocation engineered by the Ukrainian authorities....
Fabricated news claims Poroshenko engineering 3rd round of voting
By Polygraph
Vladimir Kovalenko
Elise Journal Author
“Poroshenko is preparing for a 3rd round of presidential elections in Ukraine.”
Source: Elise Journal, May 15, 2019
False
The inauguration...
Democracy as an act of defiance
By EU vs Disinfo
The people of the European Union has voted. The second largest democracy in the world, after India, and the results of...
Russia’s influence arcenal: Watch out, this is what China is learning from Russia
By Edward Lucas, for CEPA
Last week’s column looked at six political warfare tactics common to Russia and China, and three that are used (so...
StopFake News #236 with Marko Suprun
Fake: Ukraine’s Parliamentary Speaker calls for a new Maydan. Top Russian fakes about the EU’s Eastern Partnership program
https://youtu.be/7D-ZOP07RzM
New U.S. Sanctions Bill against Nord Stream 2 not a trade war on Europe
By Polygraph
Dmitry Lekukh
Political commentator
“Actually, these are already not restrictions at all: this is a direct and unequivocal declaration of economic war against the entire...