Russian lawmakers want to expand the government’s power to block websites without court oversight
By Meduza
What happened?
On September 30, the newspaper Vedomosti reported that the State Duma has introduced legislation that would allow officials to circumvent the courts when blocking websites...
A new Russian movie set in Crimea during the 2014 annexation enjoys another round...
By Meduza
On September 28, Russian movie theaters started showing Alexey Pimanov’s new film “Crimea,” whose viewer rating on Kinopoisk (Russia’s version of IMDB) hackers recently tried to inflate....
The Kremlin’s Internet Master Bears Down
A previously obscure Russian oversight body has been turned into the government’s chief cyberspace censor
By Daria Litvinova, for Codastory
It was impossible for the Russian...
Fake: Ukrainians Visiting Crimea in Droves
According to the Russian Security Service (FSB) Crimea border control, well after the end of the vacation season Ukrainians are pouring into the annexed...
How Russian news networks are using Catalonia to destabilize Europe
Media stories in English, Russian and German equating crisis in Spain with conflicts in Crimea and Kurdistan
By David Alandete, Madris, for El Pais
In...
StopFake #151 with Romeo Kokriatsky
Fake Ukrainian ISIS militants, Ukraine's new language law and fake Roshen chocolate expansion in Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_vGUwPN994&feature=youtu.be
How Russia and WikiLeaks Became Allies Against the West
Some claim WikiLeaks is working for the Kremlin. The reality is hardly so simple
By Matthew Kupfer, for The Moscow Times
The timing couldn’t have been better...
Kosovo: Fake news in a struggling democracy
By Orjela Stafasani, for Eurozine
In Kosovo, political corruption, a weak cultural sector and the absence of regulatory bodies allow fake news to thrive, particularly...
Why Trump’s UN Speech Was Gold for Russia’s Top Propagandist
By EU vs Disinfo
Below you find a summary of the main topics on Russia’s most watched TV news channels this week.
The news...
Moscow, Not Kyiv, Behind Ethnocide of Ethnic Russians in Ukraine, Yakovenko Says
Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
The Russian Duma has declared that Kyiv’s decision to make Ukrainian the language of instruction in Ukrainian schools is “’an...