Fake: European Union Seeks To Improve Relations with Russia At Any Cost
Russian media distorted the words of Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite and Estonian Foreign Minister Sven Mikser in order to create the impression that the...
Klimov: Russia never interferes in the affairs of foreign states, including Iran
By Polygraph
Andrei Klimov
Deputy Chairman, Federation Council foreign affairs committee
“Russia does not interfere in the domestic affairs of foreign states. Iran is a sovereign state,...
As screws tighten in Moscow, Russians are turning to diverse regional media, editors say
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
As the Moscow media is increasingly restricted in its operations by the Kremlin, more Russians are turning to media...
StopFake #164 with Marko Suprun
Top 10 fakes of 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQAqV7zkOlg&t=46s
Fake: Ukrainians Being Massively Deported from EU and Israel
Ukrainian visa free travel to the EU Schengen zone countries which went into effect in June 2017 remains a favorite topic for Russian fakes...
Putin’s Russia now ‘an empire of lies,’ not ‘an evil empire,’ Pastukhov says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
At the everyday level, Vladimir Pastukhov says, it is unlikely that Russians lie more than people in other countries...
Brazil introduces tougher regulations on ‘fake news’ ahead of 2018 elections
By Taisa Sganzerla, for Global Voices
In early December 2017, Brazil's government established a committee to monitor and possibly order the blocking of false news reports...
Fake: Ukraine Postpones Salary Increases for Military for a Year
Scores of Ukrainian media published stories claiming that Ukraine was postponing raising servicemen’s salaries for a year. Ukraine’s Ministry of Social Policy meanwhile says...
Isolating Russia’s three master narratives in Latvia
By Mārtiņš Kaprāns, for CEPA
Since the 1990s, the Kremlin has disseminated three grand narratives about Latvia: that it systematically discriminates against its ethnic Russians; that...
The Fake News Stories That Reeled In Russians In 2017
By Carl Schreck, for RFE/RL
Fake news -- or at least global discussion of the phenomenon -- continued to flourish in 2017, so much so...