“Beware, Propaganda!”: Russia’s Independent Media Take On State TV
Russia's NTV state television channel is facing an unexpected backlash over a bit of its trademark anti-Western rhetoric.
After NTV accused a regional newspaper of...
TASS Distorts French Senate Resolution on Russia Sanctions
This week Russia’s news agency TASS reported that the French Senate adopted a resolution calling for" the gradual softening of sanctions imposed on Russia...
Why Ukraine banned 17 Russian journalists
On 27 May 2016 Petro Poroshenko signed a decree banning 17 Russian journalists from entering Ukraine till the end of 2017, accusing them of...
Fake: Germany and France Want Special Visas for Ukraine
At the beginning of June Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda published a story claiming that Germany and France want to introduce special visas for Ukrainian...
StopFakeNews #85 with Ed Johnson
The latest edition of StopFake News with Ed Johnson. This week’s fakes include a claim that the US Ambassador to Russia is calling for...
Fake: UN Criticizes Kyiv for 2014 Odessa Violence Investigation
Russia’s government daily newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta announced that the United Nations have criticized Ukraine’s investigation of the violent events in Odessa which claimed the...
Fake: US Ambassador to Russia Calls for Lifting of Russia Sanctions
Russia Today completely misrepresented the position of the American Ambassador to Russia regarding the lifting of sanctions against the Russian Federation. RT’s story entitled...
TASS: UN Concerned about Falling Ukrainian Standard of Living
Earlier this week scores of Russian media (Vzglyad, Euronews, Russkaya planeta, Nezavisimaya gazeta, Pronedra and others) disseminated a TASS story claiming that the UN...
Fake: Ukraine Launches Federalization
Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced recently that the process of federalization has begun in Ukraine.
“Call it what you want, decentralization, federalization. That’s...
The “Return of Stalin”: Understanding the Surge of Historical Politics in Russia
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) At the beginning of this year, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov published an article in Russia in Global Affairs explaining the...