The Daily Vertical: Russia’s real debate (Transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL
The most interesting thing that happened during yesterday's so-called election was a heated debate between a candidate who received less...
Russian media cite fake election observers
By Polygraph
Thierry Mariani
French politician
“I have worked as an observer of elections for about 20 years and can say that in Russia I see improvements...
Final report of the High level expert group on fake news and online disinformation
By European Commission
In January 2018, the European Commission set up a high-level group of experts ("the HLEG") to advise on policy initiatives to counter...
Figure of the Week: 50 million
By EU vs Disinfo
The data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica took private information from more than 50 million U.S. Facebook users without their permission to...
Fake: Crimean Tatars Voter Turnout Greater for March 18 Russian Presidential Elections than Any...
The Kremlin claims that more Crimean Tatars turned out to vote in last weekend’s Russian presidential elections than in any elections held under Ukrainian...
Skripal Poisoning: If Not Russia, Then…:The many theories of who used a Russian nerve...
By DFRLab
Ever since the British media began suggesting that Russia was behind the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal with a rare nerve agent...
Putin’s Vision of a New ‘World Order’ Increasingly Worrisome, Kirillova Says
By Paul Goble, Window on Ukraine
It is perhaps emblematic of the times, but Vladimir Putin is increasingly using video clips and full-scale films to...
StopFake #175 with Marko Suprun
Fake: Ukraine’s military command announces punitive Donbas campaign and Crimea offensive; Ukraine to force Crime and Donbas residents to repent; Ukrainian tracks in the...
Putin’s Brezhnev Moment
By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL
So, Vladimir Putin just had another Leonid Brezhnev moment.
Last year, the current Kremlin leader surpassed the longtime Soviet ruler in...
Fake: UN Recognizes Russian Telephone Code for Crimea
Russian media disseminated a fake story this week claiming that the United Nations International Telecommunication Union recognized the Russian telephone code of Crimea, thereby...