Disinfo News: Why Does Sputnik Ignore Top Russian News?
By Polygraph
The latest round of the U.S. sanctions imposed last week deliver a hard blow to Russian economy, making it top news around the...
Manipulation: Ukraine Losing Transcarpathia
Russian mass media regularly feature stories about so called deteriorating relations between Ukraine and its neighbor Hungary. On April 6 Kremlin stalwart Moskovskyi Komsomolets...
#PutinAtWar: Far Right Converges on “False Flag” in Syria
By Ben Nimmo, for DFRLab
Pro-Kremlin, pro-Assad, and far right online communities align to claim chemical weapons attack was a “false flag”
Within hours of the...
StopFake #178 with Marko Suprun
Fake: Ukraine preparing provocations on eastern border; US Senator Lindsey Graham admits Russia sanctions not working; Kyiv admits there are Ukrainian components in North...
Tracking Russian online interference teaches valuable lessons on improving news quality
By Ivan Sigal. for Global Voices
With the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) indictment of 13 Russians for interfering in 2016 United States (U.S.) presidential elections, Global Voices...
Fake: Ukraine Preparing Provocations on Border with Occupied Luhansk
Media from Ukraine’s Russian occupied eastern territories were awash with news items claiming Ukraine’s security forces and border guards were readying “provocations” to be...
Fake: Senator Lindsay Graham Admits Russia Sanctions Not Working
Russian media were awash with stories last week claiming that US Senator Lindsey Graham had admitted that sanctions against Russia were not working.
Kremlin stalwart...
At UN, indignant Russia protests culpability in Skripal poisoning, calls accusations fake news, absurd...
By Paula Chertok
After a month of denials, distortions and counter-accusations, Russia gathered the international community at the UN Security Council and again dismissed as fabricated...
Ukraine Reform Monitor: March 2018
By Balazs Jarabik, Thomas De Waal, for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
This is the eighth Ukraine Reform Monitor published by the Carnegie Endowment for...
Observers Disagree with Putin that 2018 Election Was the ‘Most Transparent and Clean’ Vote...
By Polygraph
Vladimir Putin
President, Russia
“As many already said, certainly, this was the most transparent and clean election in the history of our country.”
Source: Kremlin.ru, April...