Kremlin Watch Monitor: August 23, 2016
Weekly update on Kremlin disinformation efforts in Europe
"Ukrainian saboteurs"
While the military activity on the Crimea-Ukraine border is escalating, the Russian Federation accused Ukraine of...
Russia’s Vesti accuses Ukrainian military of shelling OSCE
On August 21 Russia’s official news site Vesti published a story claiming that Ukrainian military had fired on OSCE monitors who were carrying out...
Putin’s New Totalitarianism Relies on ‘Targeted Repression and Mass Manipulation,’ Gudkov Says
Unlike classical totalitarian rulers who relied on “total terror and mass repressions,” Lev Gudkov says, Vladimir Putin relies on a “new technology of rule,”...
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...