Monday, September 22, 2025

Fake: Ukraine’s Navy Ceases to Exist

Russian pro-Kremlin site Ukraina.ru ran a story this week claiming that Ukraine’s former naval commander had announced that the country’s fleet had ceased to...

Fake: Luhansk Facing Environmental Disaster Because Of Ukrainian Military Deforestation

The so-called Luhansk People’s Republic, one of the self-proclaimed separatist entities in eastern Ukraine is disseminating fakes claiming that Ukrainian military are illegally logging...

NATO Needs an Offensive Cybersecurity Policy

By Barbara Roggeveen, for Atlantic Council Modern-day warfare is as much about cyberattacks and the protection of communication and information systems as it is about...

Putin regime is driving out the most qualified cadres, Levada Center’s Gudkov says

Russia faces a massive brain drain because those seeking to leave Russia now in ever greater numbers are the most educated and competent, Lev...

The Daily Vertical: The Kremlin’s anti-Navalny? (Transcript)

By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL He's a bare-knuckled street brawler. He's a firebrand leftist. And he's an unapologetic Stalinist who wants to restore the Soviet...

Ukraine Did Not Supply North Korea with Missile Engines

Ukraine Did Not Supply North Korea with Missile Engines On August 14 the New York Times published a story entitled North Korea’s Missile Success Is...

StopFake #144 with Brian Mefford

The latest edition of StopFake News with Brian Mefford. Among the disinformation debunked Right Sector and Ukrainian military in armed conflict; Ukraine to send...
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Fake: Right Sector and Ukrainian Military in Armed Conflict

Scores of Russian media reported this week that a shootout between Ukrainian military and the radical Right Sector battalion had occurred in the war...

Russian Journalist Sokolov Jailed for Extremism After Calling for Referendum

A Moscow court on Thursday sentenced Russian journalist Alexander Sokolov to three and a half years in jail for extremism, in a case Sokolov...

Russian federal censor adds Snapchat to government list of instant messengers without company’s knowledge

By Meduza Correction: Snapchat has clarified that Russia's Internet censor added Snap Inc. to its list of online messengers without its knowledge. Initial reports that...