Fake: Finance Ministry: Ukraine faces economic collapse without IMF bailout
Without an IMF bailout Ukraine’s economy is headed for a total collapse, declared Russia’s official news site Vesti last week.
“The IMF has yet again...
Fake: Nuclear energy collapse in Ukraine
Russian media are very fond of predicting a second Chornobyl like disaster in Ukraine. The reason for this latest prediction published by the Sputnik...
Signal & Noise
Kremlin influence operations and propaganda noise, Nikolai Holmov wrote for Intersection.
Recently Ukraine has witness a well-advertised and long planned "peace march" taking part across...
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...