Rate the Most Glaring Fakes About Occupied Crimea
As the anniversary of the Russian annexation of Crimea draws upon us, StopFake presents an interactive rating of Russian fakes about Crimea. Score each...
Fake: US Intelligence Finds Reasons for Regime Change in Ukraine
Last week the Russian newspaper Vzglyad featured an article claiming that the US Intelligence community’s Worldwide Threat Assessment concluded that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko...
Fake: Ukrainian Right Sector Radicals Attack Peaceful Russians in Athens
Russian media presented a recent football brawl in the Greek capital Athens as an attack on peaceful Russians tourists by radical Ukrainians from the...
Fake: Europe Denies Donbas Pensions
On February 13 Russian media blared with headlines such as European Court for Human Rights allows Ukraine not to pay out war zone pensions,...
Moldova Introduces Fines for ‘Russian Propaganda’
By Madalin Necsutu, for BalcanInsight
The authorities have begun to impose financial penalties on media outlets in an attempt to prevent alleged attempts to spread Russian...
Movement of Russia’s military equipment near Latvia’s border is information war – Chief of...
By The Baltic Times
Movement of Russia’s military equipment near Latvia’s border, deployment of Iskander missiles in Kalningrad is rather an information war, not a...
Figure of the Week: 18.7 billion
By EU vs Disinfo
Russia may be cutting spending on healthcare and education, but its state-run media have never been in better shape.
RT’s budget for...
From objective reporting to myths and propaganda: The story of RIA
By EU vs Disinfo
“Brothels for zoophiles have existed for a long time in Copenhagen. Local animal rights defenders, whose voices, however, are almost never...
Kremlin Watch Briefing: The West should learn from the Baltics
Topics of the Week
The Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies has published a call for scholars to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship...
The Daily Vertical: Putin’s image police (transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL
Like any head of state, Vladimir Putin has an army of bodyguards to protect him.
But unlike most heads of state,...