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...
Fake: Germans Are Uneasy about Ukraine-Russia Debt Repayment Suit
On December 23, the Russian website Military Survey informed that Germans and German media are becoming uneasy about a judicial settlement between Ukraine and...
Arkadiy Babchenko: Infantilism as Russia’s Official Ideology
If you asked me to characterise the “Russian World” (Russky mir) in one word, I would not hesitate to call it infantilism. This term...
Team Fortress 2 poster mistaken for US propaganda on Russian state television
As part of an effort to show how theUnited Statesuses propaganda to influence the mindset of its citizens, a historical documentary recently aired by...
Major mission creep with Sputnik
This initially started out as a sort of How to Amnesty International for Dummies, but in the course of my research on the topic...
The End Of Russia’s Mass Hallucination
Fresh barbed-wire fencing around the nation's main TV tower isn't exactly a sign of a confident regime, Brian Whitmore writes for RFE/RL.
In addition to reinforcing...
Roscomnadzor Head Claims Google and Apple Are ‘Relocating Servers’ to Russia
Western Internet and technology juggernauts Google and Apple may be working on moving some of their servers storing user data to Russia, according to...
Massive LiveJournal Troll Network Pushes Pro-Kremlin Narratives
Since spring 2014, thousands of fake LiveJournal blogs have been mass-posting content promoting a pro-Kremlin stance on world events, attacking Western leaders and praising Russian president Vladimir Putin. Using custom...
Putin’s Ukraine Admission and a Culture of Lies
After persistent denials, Russian President Vladimir Putin seemingly admitted to a Russian military presence in Eastern Ukraine (before he didn’t). In any “normal country”,...