Monday, September 15, 2025

Fake: ISIS training camps in southern Ukraine

At the end of July several Russian sites ran stories devoted to one of their favorite disinformation topics, that Ukraine is a training ground...

Fake: Belgium may lift sanctions against Russia

Earlier this week, Russia’s newspaper of record Izvestia announced that the Belgian parliament was poised to consider a resolution aimed at lifting sanctions against...

Fake:Ukraine soliciting funds to host Eurovision 2017

Russian website Ukraina.ru ran a story about Ukraine’s preparation for the 2017 Eurovision song contest in which it implied that Kyiv is soliciting funds...

Fake: IMF won’t grant Ukraine new tranche of funds

The internet publication Kiev Times announced that the IMF would not give Ukraine any more bailout funds, Russia’s official international network RT immediately followed...

It looks like Russia hired internet trolls to pose as pro-Trump Americans

  Russia's troll factories were, at one point, likely being paid by the Kremlin to spread pro-Trump propaganda on social media. That is what freelance journalist...

Kremlin Watch Monitor. June 25, 2016

Weekly update on Kremlin disinformation efforts in Europe Junior analyst Vlaďka Vojtíšková from the European Values think-tank co-authored a research paper published by the...

StopFakeNews #92 with Askold Krushelnycky

The latest edition of StopFake News with British journalist Askold Krushelnycky. Among this week’s fakes, claims that Ukraine disrupted the 2016 Sea Breeze military...

Fake: Finnish farmers losing out because of Russian sanctions

According to Russian agencies RIA Novosti, Sputnik, RuNews 24, Argumenty nedeli, Ekonomika Segodnya Finnish farmers’ profits are falling because of Russia’s embargo on European...

Fake: Ukraine’s Gagauz minority demand autonomy

National minority demands for autonomy, a staple of Russian fakes about Ukraine, made a comeback this week with the claim that the Turkic minority...

Fake: Kirovograd residents overwhelmingly prefer tsarist era name

Russian government daily newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta announced last week that Ukraine disregarded the majority opinion of Kirovohrad residents and renamed this central Ukrainian city...