Truthiness in Russia
As opinion polls show, Russian propaganda is not effective in improving Russia’s image abroad. The situation is dramatically different inside Russia, where most popular...
Is Russia Insider sponsored by a Russian oligarch with the ties to the European...
The emails leaked by the Anonymous International last year give us a few insights into the workings of the English language pro-Putin propaganda website...
Fake: Ukrainian Soldiers in Syria
Russian media and the former Internal Affairs Minister of Ukraine, Vitaliy Zakharchenko, have resurrected a debunked story about Ukrainian soldiers being sent to Syria.
The...
Fake: Poroshenko Orders Total Blokade against Crimea
On November 22, Ukraina.ru falsely reported that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had decided to “completely block up the Crimea” by putting a stop to...
Neighbours, but not friends
On 28 October, FSB officers paid a visit to the Library of Ukrainian Literature in Moscow. Their mission? To find books banned from publication...
We are all Stopfake
I had a longer post planned for today, but today, and the night before, proved to be pretty hectic. How hectic? I got hit...
One man’s hard lesson after the Eiffel Tower’s darkness was mistaken for a moving...
On the night of the Paris attacks, Rurik Bradbury noticed an inevitable and tiresome trend popping up on Twitter. “I think I saw a...
Kremlin’s habit of hiding the truth: A321 case
By now, it is pretty clear to the world that the tragic crash of Russia’s Airbus A321 in Egypt over two weeks ago resulted...
Beating the Islamist propagandists
Barely 12 hours had passed since the siege on Paris’ Bataclan theater ended and already the propagandists of the Islamic State had put together...