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...
Fake: Naval NATO Sea Breeze exercises disrupted because of Ukraine
On July 18 RIA Novosti reported on its website that the Sea Breeze 2016 joint US-Ukrainian military exercises were unable to proceed because of...
Peter Pomerantsev: Why We’re Post-Fact
As his army blatantly annexed Crimea, Vladimir Putin went on TV and, with a smirk, told the world there were no Russian soldiers in...
Kremlin Watch Monitor. July 19, 2016
Weekly update on Kremlin disinformation efforts in Europe
From 8th to 9th July, the NATO summit took place in Warsaw. NATO and the EU...
Information war monitor for Central Europe: June 2016 Part 2
GLOBSEC Policy Institute’s bi-weekly overview of conventional and social media discourse in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia monitors propaganda and disinformation attempts, as...
Russia without BS: Updating the list
If you’ve been following Russia closely since about 2012, you know that in spite of the fact that Russia is a rising superpower at...
Taras Kuzio: Is Ukraine really winning the ‘information war’ with Russia?
In a recent interview, Verkhovna Rada Speaker Andriy Paraubiy said the European Union decision to extend sanctions against Russia for its aggression against Ukraine...
Fake: European Parliament accuses Poroshenko of political repression
Ukraina.ru reported this week that members of the European Parliament are calling on Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to stop political repression in Ukraine while...