Fake: Ukraine Buys Locomotives from a Failing American Corporation
Russian propagandist site Ukraina.ru ran a story last week claiming that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was saving a sinking American company, General Electric (GE)...
StopFakeNews #173 with Peter Shmigel
Fake: Ukraine training terrorists for European and Middle East operations; Ukraine readies army and nationalists for war; The student strike that never was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNSkZgdjD1w
Ukraine’s Stolen History, Stolen Culture
By Lesia Kuruts-Tkach, Atlantic Council
Until recently, Ukrainian culture was perceived internationally as a subset of Russian culture. Even now, after Ukraine has had almost twenty-seven...
Kremlin Watch Briefing: Russian trolls and U.S. politics
Topics of the Week
Twitter is banning the methods used by bots and trolls to spread false stories on the network. Twitter users will no...
The Kremlin’s ‘Besieged Fortress’ Narrative Criticised in Independent Media
By EU vs Disinfo
Russian media received President Putin’s annual address on Thursday with varying degrees enthusiasm. RT, for example, ran headlines such as ‘Listen to us...
Russia probe looms as possible election year issue
Jim Malone, for VOA
In recent weeks, the investigation into possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia has intensified, raising the prospect...
Suspicions of ‘bots’ gow over spikes in ‘dislikes’ of Russian stories ahead of election
By Alan Crosby, for RFE/RL
When Zmitser Yahorau saw the number of "dislikes" for a Belsat TV story on YouTube about life in a Russian...
Fake: Ukraine Readies Army and Nationalists for War
The Kremlin’s lead propagandist Dimitri Kiselyov, whom the BBC dubbed Russia’s chief spin doctor who specializes in portraying Ukraine as a country of fascists,...
Update: Kadyrov’s Press Secretary Accuses US Government of Conspiring against Chechnya
By Polygraph
Alvi Karimov, press secretary of Ramzan Kadyrov, head of Chechnya
Alvi Karimov, press secretary of Ramzan Kadyrov, head of Chechnya
“There is not even a...
Is the U.S. Evacuating IS Members from Syria?
By Polygraph
Sputnik News
Russian State Media Agency
“The source from the town of al-Hasakah (north-east part of Syria) has told Sputnik on the condition of anonymity...