Fake: Ukrainian Сolonel Proposes to Raze Donbas and Crimea
Russian propagandist media (REN TV, Vesti) disseminated a fake this week claiming that a lieutenant in the Ukrainian armed forces was advocating razing Crimea...
Kremlin Watch Monitor. April 19, 2017
Invitation: How Europe sees Putin's Russia
On April 24, we will present a new major study in the European Parliament, which evaluates policies of individual...
Small time propagandists
Written by Inga Spriņģe, Re:Baltica
Who is polluting the Baltic internet in Russian?
U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to end financing for the Baltic states.
This...
Fake: Energy Austerity Measures in Ukraine
The former Soviet newspaper of record, today Russia’s biggest daily broadsheet Izvestia announced this week that energy consumption and demand for oil products in Ukraine have...
Revealed: Confessions of a Kremlin Troll
Being paid by the Russian government to troll the internet just isn't what it used to be.
By Katie Davies, for The Moscow Times
Russia's paid...
Fake: Ukraine No Longer an Industrial Nation
Russian news agency Politnavigator declared this week that Ukraine is no longer an industrial country.
The news site quotes Donetsk sociologist Yevgeniy Kopatko’s pronouncements on...
Warfare in a Post-Truth World: Lessons from Ukraine
Author: Yuri Zhukov, for PONARS Policy Memo
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(PONARS Policy Memo) The U.S. intelligence community’s January 6 report about Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election...
The Khan Sheikhoun Chemical Attack — Who Bombed What and When?
By Christiaan Triebert, for Bellingcat
Last week, we published a survey of open source evidence concerning the alleged chemical attack at Khan Sheikhoun in Syria’s Idlib...
Meet Russia’s Warrior-Writer and Bloodthirsty Priest
By Nikolay Syrov, for Global Voices
In addition to being a prominent contemporary writer in Russia, Zakhar Prilepin is a vocal political ideologue. A member...
Fake: US Accuses Ukraine of Genocide against Its People
Scores of Russian media disseminated a story this week claiming that during a meeting with business leaders US President Donald Trump accused Ukraine of...