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...
Fake: Aided by Islamic Battalion Ukraine Delivers Chemical Weapons to the Middle East
Russian Defense Ministry television channel Zvezda, along with other Russian propagandist sites disseminated a fake story last week claiming that Ukraine was delivering chemical...
StopFakeNews #127 with Jim Kovpak
The latest edition of StopFake News with Jim Kovpak. This week’s fakes include claims that Ukraine plans to classify Crimea and Donbas residents as...
After Moving Servers to Russia, LiveJournal Bans ‘Political Solicitation’
Last December, the blogging platform LiveJournal — purchased in 2007 by the Russian company SUP Media — finally relocated its data servers from California...
Sputnik’s unknown brother
By Inga Spriņģe, Sanita Jemberga, Re:Baltica
Three Baltic Russian-language news sites known collectively as Baltnews are secretly linked to the Kremlin’s global propaganda network.
Three years...
Kremlin Watch Monitor. April 5, 2017
Invitation to the Expert Roundtable
How Europe sees Putin's Russia
The purpose of this event is to discuss how various allied states perceive the threat which...
‘Crimean Effect Weaker But Still Significant for the Kremlin, Experts Say
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
With the passing of time, the euphoria with which Russians greeted the Crimean Anschluss has weakened, a process that...
Photographs of Ukrainian Buks Geolocated, Nearly Three Years Later
By Bellingcat
On July 15, 2014, a chaplain for the Ukrainian Armed Forces named O. (short for “otets,” or “father”) Gredil Mykhailo uploaded a handful of...