Will we ever see the end of information control in Azerbaijan?
By Arzu Geybullayeva, for Global Voices
At a meeting of NATO allies in Brussels in November 2017, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev highlighted the importance of...
McMaster says U.S. must reveal ‘insidious’ Russian meddling to prevent further attacks
By RFE/RL
Top White House adviser H.R. McMaster says one of the most important tasks in defending U.S. national security is to reveal Russia’s “insidious”...
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...