Fake: Ukraine’s Security Service Orders Destruction of MH17 Crash Evidence
Russian sites Sovershenno Sekretno (Top secret) and the Federal Investigation Agency.ru published stories featuring what they claim are Ukrainian Security Service documents with instructions...
Window to Nowhere. Russian Media Upset about Ukrainian Visa Free Travel to EU Countries
Russia’s Defense Ministry television channel Zvezda got into the visa-free travel to the EU is doom for Ukrainians game in a special report menacingly...
Crimean Journalist’s Trial Resumes, Adjourned Until June 14
By RFE/RL
The trial of RFE/RL contributor Mykola Semena, a Crimean journalist who is fighting what he says is a politically motivated separatism charge on...
Moscow TV Round-Up: Literature, Justice and the Third Reich
By Mark H. Teeter, for The Moscow Times
It’s "strange bedfellows week" on Moscow television, as the small screen offers its audience great literature (live!),...
Digital Guerrillas Bring Down Russian State Censor’s Website
When access to the messaging app Telegram was interrupted in Russia on June 3, for the second time in less than a week, some worried that...
How a social media joke became anti-NATO propaganda in Estonia
By Urve Eslas, for CEPA
A Russian propaganda website has turned a local joke about the Estonian-Russian border fence into an anti-NATO narrative directed at...
Talking Heads: How Russia’s Videobloggers are Shaping Public Opinion
As Russians turn from their televisions in favour of YouTube, the Kremlin is struggling to find a primetime slot.
By Ola Cichowlas, for The Moscow...
The Daily Vertical: The New NKVD (Transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL
The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.
Words matter.
And they particularly matter when they...
Crimean Tatar activist prosecuted for Facebook birthday greeting to Mustafa Dzhemilev
By Halya Coynash, Human Rights in Ukraine
Rustem Mennanov has become the latest Crimean Tatar to be fined or jailed for innocuous social network posts. ...
Pre-MH17 Photograph of Buk 332 Discovered
By Bellingcat
Since the July 17, 2014 downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 (MH17), Bellingcat has published numerous articles concerning the anti-aircraft missile launcher that...