Writing in the Kremlin’s Shadow
"The problem with “Walter Cronkite and the rest of them,” the American correspondents in Moscow, my grandmother used to tell me, was that all...
Brave New War: a new form of conflict emerged in 2015
From China in Asia to Russia in Europe and the Middle East, and ISIS just about everywhere, 2015 has seen the flourishing of conflicts...
Kazan Arrests Pro-Moscow Critic under Terms of Russia’s Anti-Extremist Law
Rais Suleymanov, a Tatar who has sharply criticized Kazan for supposedly assisting the rise of radical Islam in the Middle Volga and for failing...
Greek news agency ANA-MPA starts editorial cooperation with Sputnik
The ANA-MPA will launch a new international 'news journey' in collaboration with the Russian news agency Sputnik on New Year's Day, with two new...
Russia: Blogger Sentenced to Five Years Imprisonment
In response to a Russian court sentencing blogger Vadim Tyumentsev to five years imprisonment after convicting him of “extremism” for posting videos on social...
Fake: Poroshenko plans to block visa free entry of Ukrainians to Russia
Russian website Ukraina.ru wrote that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced his intention to introduce new travel documents which would end visa-free entry into Russia...
Fake: Ukrainian libraries, museums to charge admission
Pro-Kremlin websites published an article saying the Ukrainian parliament has adopted laws that will force Ukrainians to pay for a range of services that...
Lenta.ru Distorted the Words of Ukraine’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations
Russia’s popular Lenta.ru website used a headline which had Ukraine’s UN representative Volodymyr Yelchenko apparently dismissing Ukraine’s chances of ever regaining sovereignty over Crimea.
The...
Media Presented Fake Blogger as Ukrainian Political Scientist
The website Golos Pravdy published a news story arguing that the Ukrainian president, not the Kremlin, was responsible for destroying Ukraine, citing an imaginary...
Spanish Newspaper calls Ukrainian Footballer “Fascist”
Spanish media accused Ukrainian footballer Yevhen Konoplyanka of fascism on the basis of an unverified tweet.
On December 18, the Spanish newspaper La Voz de...