Friday, February 6, 2026

Fake: Ukraine Boasts about Crimea Drought

Several pro-Kremlin Russian media disseminated stories this week claiming that Ukrainian MP Mustafa Dzhemilev, the leader of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis representative council boasted...

Russian troops keep dying in Syria six months after Putin announced their withdrawal

By Polygraph Russian Defense Ministry, via Sputnik "Four Russian servicemen have been killed in Syria as a result of shelling by militants, the Russian Defense Ministry...

Can crowdsourcing scale fact-checking up, up, up? Probably not, and here’s why

By Mevan Babakar, for NiemanLab There’s no end to the need for fact-checking, but fact-checking teams are usually small and struggle to keep up with the...

What do Russian nationalists, Alex Jones and Roseanne have in common?

By Polygraph Ya Russkiy Website “This is George Soros. Remember this next time the Soros-funded liberals call you a racist, fascist or Nazi.” Source: Ya-Russ.ru, April 22,...

How many non-existent apples go into two apples?

By EU vs Disinfo Distracting the audience is one of the goals of the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign. One of the techniques how to do this...

Distortion: Ukraine’s Border Defense Powerless on the Azov Sea

On June 5 Russian media reported that Ukraine’s military had allegedly admitted that its State Border Service was incompetent and ineffective compared to Russia’s...

The curious case of Pavel Stroilov

By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews) A middle-aged Russian “student” who was once described as a friend of Alexander Litvinenko has also been former Soviet dissident Vladimir...

Russia-Linked ‘American’ Site Downplays Russian Connections

By Polygraph Unknown Editor of USA Really Website “This exciting new project will encourage our colleagues and fellow citizens to think critically, and to provide a large...

Disinformation Resilience in Central and Eastern Europe

By Ukrainian Prism Download the publication The countries of Eastern and Central Europe have become Russia’s test field for new propaganda methods, and the regions of...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: Is the staged murder of Arkadiy Babchenko a success story?

The Prague Manual Funded by the International Visegrad Fund, The Prague Manual (1) describes the toolkit of Russian subversion operations in Europe, (2) comes up...