Kremlin, Nationalists Face Off Over Romanov Romance ‘Mathilda’
Moscow’s conservative friends become its foes in campaign to defend Tsar Nicholas II’s memory
The trailer for “Mathilda,” a fictionalized retelling of the romance between...
Kremlin’s Efforts to Use Russophobia as the ‘Anti-Sovietism’ of Today Don’t Quite Work, Troitsky...
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
When the USSR existed, calling someone “anti-Soviet” was one of the most damning labels, even if some wore that...
Junker: Ukraine Not In EU, Not In NATO
This week both Russian and Ukrainian media disseminated a story claiming that European Commission President Jean Claude Junker said that Ukraine is not the...
Fake: Poroshenko Donetsk Greeting Outrages Residents
Russia’s NTV channel published a news story claiming that a greeting from “bloody” Poroshenko to the city of Donetsk outraged city scores of people...
Fake: Glory to Ukraine is a Nazi Greeting
Russian propagandist site RT (Formerly Russia Today) published a story claiming that the Ukrainian popular greeting – Glory to Ukraine! – is “a well-known...
Fake: Ukraine a US Biological Testing Site
Scores of Russian media disseminated stories this week claiming that the US were conducting secret biological experiments in Ukraine resulting in some of the...
The Daily Vertical: The Ghosts Of August 1939 (Transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL
It happens every August, almost without fail.
As the summer winds down, you can count on the annual controversy about the...
Russian Disinformation: Everywhere? Nowhere? Neither?
In America, debate over the reach of Moscow propaganda heats up and scrambles political alliances
By Steven Yoder, for Codastory
Russia is a character in most...
Facing facts: Why the Great Famine in Ukraine still matters today
By Edward Lucas, for CEPA
The Holodomor happened almost a century ago. It's legacy still shapes contemporary conflict.
Was the Holodomor a genocide? No, says modern...
StopFake #146 with Matt Kriteman
The latest edition of StopFake News with Matt Kriteman. Among the disinformation debunked this week: Ukrainian independence is a sham! Nothing has been achieved...