Friday, August 29, 2025

Russian State TV broadcasts staged interview

By EU vs Disinfo As Ukraine marks the anniversary of the 2013 Maidan revolution, a young Ukrainian man tells his story to Russian state TV...

Kremlin targets Lithuania’s energy policy

By Dalia Bankauskaitė, for CEPA On 30 November, Lithuania’s National Commission for Energy Control and Prices (NCC), the independent agency that regulates energy fees in accordance with...

New internet laws in Russia — and US tech giants’ acquiescence — spell trouble...

By Christopher Moldes, for Global Voices A 2017 law regulating online activity and anonymous speech went into effect in Russia at the beginning of this month. The law “on...

Denigrating Ukraine with disinformation

By EU vs Disinfo As the confrontation around the Azov Sea and the Kerch Strait has escalated, so has the disinformation as well as the rhetoric denigrating...

Movies and propaganda: How the Kremlin influences public opinion at home and abroad

By Kseniya Kirillova, for EU Today In the middle of November British critics accused a famous Russian cartoon “Masha and the Bear” of pushing “Kremlin’s propaganda”. Specifically, The Times refers to...

StopFake #214 with Marko Suprun

Fake: Moscow Patriarchate church in Vinnytsia seized. NATO brigade arrives in Donbas. Ukrainian security forces on western payroll. https://youtu.be/WTFhlJOSNBM

Fake: Vinnytsia Moscow Patriarchate Orthodox Church Seized

One hour after the Ukrainian Orthodox Synod unifying Ukrainian Orthodox Churches began in Kyiv on December 15, Russian media launched a wave of fake...

Fake: Ukraine’s Parliament Allows Expired Products to be sold to Consumers

President Poroshenko’s puppets rejoice, official Kyiv allows expired food to be sold to Ukrainian consumers, announced former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov in a...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: Will the EU’s new Action Plan on disinformation fulfil expectations?

Topics of the Week New EU Action Plan on disinformation: Will it fulfil expectations? Foreign interference in France’s “yellow vests” protests? Automated Twitter activity spotted, but no direct...

Made-in-China fake news overwhelms Taiwan

By I-fan Lin, for Global Voices Since 2016, when Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was elected as Taiwan's president after the pro-independent Sunflower Movement,...