StopFakeNews #133 with Marko Suprun
The latest edition of StopFake News with Marko Suprun. This week we look at Russian accusations that a prominent historian is calling on Ukrainians...
Putin Doesn’t Want Russians to Continue Focusing on Crimea, Goryunova Says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
Vladimir Putin, who exploited Russian euphoria over the Anschluss of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea three years ago to...
Fake: Ukraine Loses from Trade with EU
On May 9 the Russian newspaper Gazeta.ru published a story claiming that Ukraine is losing out on trade with the European Union as negotiated...
Tainted Leaks: Disinformation and Phishing With a Russian Nexus
By Adam Hulcoop, John Scott-Railton, Peter Tanchak, Matt Brooks, and Ron Deibert, CitizenLab
“Every external operation is first and foremost a domestic one: the single...
Russian Official Says Manchester Terror Attack Is a ‘Lesson’ to British Police for Shunning...
By The Moscow Times
One of Russia’s top politicians has called the Manchester terror attack a “lesson” to British special forces for refusing to cooperate...
Fake: Ukraine Begins Repression of Hungarians in Transcarpathia
Russian sites Utro.ru, Holos UA,TASS, Ukraina.ru published a story this week claiming that Hungarians living in the Ukrainian region of Transcarpathia were declaring autonomy...
Putin’s Russian World Increasingly Informed by a Nazi Aesthetic, Moscow Specialist Says
Many commentators have discussed whether Vladimir Putin is a fascist in any serious sense, but most have failed to consider one area where fascism...
Proposed Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Messenger Services in Russia
By Codastory
A proposed law in Russia would block mobile messenger services which allow users to register anonymously, reported Meduza. The law, if passed, would...
Fake: Historian Calls for Cutting All Ties with Family in Russia
Scores of Russian media featured a story this week claiming that the director of Ukraine’s National Memory Institute Volodymyr Viatrovych called on Ukrainians to...
Putin’s Anti-Ukrainian Propaganda Playing Role State Anti-Semitism Did in Soviet Times, Ikhlov Says
By Paul Goble, Window on Russia
Vladimir Putin’s “rabid” anti-Ukrainian propaganda resembles and is intended to have a similar outcome to Soviet state anti-Semitism, or...