Plucky Russian Newspaper Stands By Warning Against ‘Distorted’ TV News
Running an independent newspaper can be a risky business in Russia, where failure to toe the Kremlin line can lead to fines, closure, or...
StopFakeNews #96 with Euan MacDonald
The latest edition of StopFake News with Kyiv Post editor Euan MacDonald. Among the fakes debunked this week are Russian media distortions of Ukrainian...
25 myths and facts about Ukraine and Ukrainians
Many foreigners, having told their friends they’re moving to Kyiv for a job or posting, are asked: “Kyiv? That’s in Russia, isn’t it?”
As a...
Russian media distort Ukrainian poll results on eve of Independence Day
Distortion and manipulation of Ukrainian poll results is a favorite topic of Russian media. On the eve the country’s 25th independence anniversary scores of...
Fake: Western Ukrainians don’t know Ukrainian
Russia’s federal news agency RIAFAN published a story claiming that residents of western Ukraine don’t know the Ukrainian language. According to RIAFA official Ukrainian...
Fake: Shipbuilding disappears in Ukraine
Russian publication Ukraina.ru published a story this week claiming that shipbuilding as an industry had all but disappeared in Ukraine.
The publication’s source for this...
Kremlin Watch Monitor. August 15, 2016
The Atlantic Council published our analysis of how Russian domestic propaganda portrays Western leaders.
Together with the Semantic Visions we analyzed over fifty-nine million articles published in the...
It’s time to fact-check all the news
Political reporters are showing that fact-checking isn’t just for fact-checkers, Bill Adair wrote for Poynter.
After Donald Trump declared repeatedly last week that President Obama...
Only 18% identifies with Kremlin-backed “DNR” – survey
A new survey finds only small fraction of “DNR” residents identifying themselves as a “DNR” citizen. However, this number is prone to grow. Ukraine...
How Russian Propaganda Portrays European Leaders
Russia’s efforts to spread disinformation in other countries as part of a hybrid war against the West sometimes make us forget that the media...