Friday, December 19, 2025

Fake: Ending Trade with Russia is Killing Ukraine’s Economy

Ukraine’s economy will not survive cutting off trade with Russia declared Ukrainian MP Vadim Rabinovich. A member of the pro-Russia Opposition Block faction, Rabinovich...

Russian State TV Channel Airs New Program Devoted to Putin

By VOANews MOSCOW — A Russian state-owned television channel has a new weekly current affairs program devoted to President Vladimir Putin. The first episode of "Moscow. Kremlin....

Non-Google search engine launches a news module based on “diverse, quality sources”

By Laura Hazard-Owen, for NiemanLab Look, it’s completely understandable that you might feel like skipping a story about Bing, the Microsoft-owned search engine that has a...

Disinformation and Paranoia

By EU vs Disinfo Do Russians actually believe the disinformation they see on the national TV channels? Or do they rather take it with a...

2018 Ranking of countermeasures by the EU28 to the Kremlin’s subversion operations

By European Values This report is a follow-up to the Overview of countermeasures by the EU28 to the Kremlin’s subversion operationsconducted by the European Values Think-Tank and...

‘Fake news’ is in the eye of the beholder: China is centralizing efforts to...

By Oiwan Lam, for Global Voices A new state-run platform is now centralizing efforts to stop online “rumors” in China. This is a significant step for China, where any...

Russian trolls exiled from Guardian find home for their hate

By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake Among the various English-language promoters of Russian propaganda, a website called OffGuardian drew attention to itself recently by praising...

StopFake #199 with Marko Suprun

Kyiv to poison Donbas water supply and blame Russia. Oleh Sentsov star on Hollywood Walk of Fame. Czech Republic does not want to admit...

Fake: Hryvnia Will Collapse

Scores of Russian media featured stories last week claiming Ukraine’s currency the hryvia will soon collapse. Ukraina.ru, Rambler, Narodnyi Korrespondent all cite the Kharkov...

How Russian Media Spun Pro-Russian Militant Zakharchenko’s Death

The death of Alexander Zakharchenko, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic as a result of a blast at a coffee shop in...