Fake: Ukrainians Ask for Electricity from Crimea
Russia’s RIA Novosti agency announced this week that Ukrainians have repeatedly asked Crimean occupation forces to share the peninsula’s electricity with the bordering southern region of...
European Court of Human Rights Begins Investigating Russia’s ‘Foreign Agent’ Law
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has started investigating whether Russia's infamous 'foreign agent' law violates human rights.
The court has begun to process...
Russia’s Sputnik Now Partners with Slovakia’s Largest News Agency
By Coda Story
The Kremlin-funded Sputnik news agency and radio broadcaster signed its first cooperation agreement with Slovakia’s largest news agency TASR. The agencies will...
Foreign Politicians’ Visit to Crimea Is Russia’s Latest Disinformation Failure
Western politicians from marginal parties may help Putin score points at home, but the international community rejects a Russian Crimea.
By Anton Shekhovtsov, for The...
How (Not To) Cover Lies
As journalists try to figure out how to cover a “post-factual” world, they should look at Ukraine for lessons
On March 12, 2014, long before...
How does Russian propaganda cover the Russia protests? It’s awkward
By Jon Levine, for MediaITE
It’s not easy being a state-sponsored propaganda news organization when your country is embroiled in domestic unrest. Case in point...
Understanding Russian “Hybrid Warfare” and what can be done about it
By Christopher S. Chivvis, RAND
Testimony presented before the House Armed Services Committee on March 22, 2017.
This report is part of the RAND Corporation testimony...
Fake: Ukraine National Team Excludes Zozulya
On March 24 Russia’s Life television channel, one of the country’s most Kremlin-friendly media outlets, declared that Ukrainian footballer Roman Zozulya was rejected by...
Fake: Maydan and Economic Crisis Cause Tuberculosis Epidemic in Ukraine
Rates of tuberculosis are rising in Ukraine, the rate of children infected with the disease has increased fifteen times declares the Russian web publication Ukraina.ru and...
Stalin’s Great Terror Wasn’t So Bad, Putin TV Suggests
The evolution in official Russian treatment of Stalin continues. He is no longer a tyrant nor is he an effective manager who may have...