Thursday, September 11, 2025

Fake: Child Care Allowance to Be Cancelled in Ukraine

Some Ukrainian and Russian media reported that child care subsidies had been cancelled in Ukraine. The pro-Russian website Politnavigator was one of the first to...

The “Fall” of Germany or How to Change Reality

On December 19 Komsomolskaya Pravda published a diary of a certain Galina Ivanova, a Russian native from Kazan, who emigrated to  Germany, first married...

Putin Exaggerates Ukraine’s Opposition Bloc Election Results

On December 17, during his annual press conference, Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin stated that the Ukrainian Opposition Bloc had won leading positions in...

Fake: Khodorkovsky Granted Ukrainian Citizenship

The claim was accompanied by a copy of  a presidential decree, allegedly signed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on December 15, 2015. The document was...

Ministry of Internal Affairs Denies Deputy Minister was Being Detained

On December 14 Vitaliy Zakharchenko, the former Minister of  Internal Affairs of  Ukraine informed on his Facebook page that the current Ukrainian Internal Affairs...

Fake: Biden Calls Ukraine the Most Corrupt State in the World

Several Ukrainian and Russian media reported that during his speech to the Ukrainian Parliament on December 8, US Vice President Joseph Biden allegedly called...

Beril Dedeoğlu: Propaganda wars

  Russia, in light of the awareness of media as the strongest tool to affect the world to legitimize oneself while causing wars, reveals supposed...

StopFakeNews #64 with Irena Chalupa

Among this week’s fakes are Russian media claims that US Vice President Joe Biden proposed to federalize Ukraine. Western and Russian media both inaccurately...

Media responsibility in the age of terror

Professor Katrin Nyman-Metcalf, and journalists Rita Chinyoka and Nadezhda Azhgikhina discuss feeding terror, hate speech, and the responsibilities of mainstream media, at the World...

Andrew Wilson: Four Types of Russian Propaganda

There are at least four types of Russian propaganda, each with different modus operandi in a strategically diverse environment, Andrew Wilson writes for Aspen...