Russian Deported Journalist and Her Alternative Fact Stories
This week Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) deported Anna Kurbatova, a journalist working for Russia’s state TV Perviy Kanal (Channel One) and banned her for...
Russian journalist Kurbatova to be deported from Ukraine – SBU
By Ukrinform
Russia's Channel One journalist Anna Kurbatova will be deported to Russia, Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) spokesperson Olena Hitlianska has reported on Facebook.
"Russian propagandist...
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...