Triangulating Sources to Thin the Fog of War
This article is part of a larger guidebook by RuNet Echo to help people learn how to conduct open-source research on the Russian Internet....
Stereotypes paralyze Russia’s potential for change
The Russian opposition and Western analysts have pointed out repeatedly that Russia’s authorities are actually a “Chekist clan” – former KGB officers who obtained...
Fake “ Ukrainian Nazis” are really Russian Nationalists
Last week Russia’s Defense Ministry television channel “Zvezda” published a news item claiming that Ukrainians were taught to hate Russians.
The article entitled “Cutthroat Nazism:...
Russian Hackers Behind Attack on Ukraine’s Power Grid, Researchers Claim
The alleged cyber-attack that led to a temporary outage of the Ukrainian power grid was likely perpetrared by Russian hackers, according to US researchers.
The...
Information Warfare: Europe’s Time to Change the Narrative
Vladimir Putin receives a lot of sympathy in Europe. And not just from Russian speakers, but also from nationalists of all stripes who see...
Fake: Poroshenko claims to be the reincarnation of both a Cossack and a Nationalist...
The website LiveKuban , a news site serving Russia’s Krasnodar region published a particularly peculiar item about something Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko allegedly said.
Live...
Fake: Roshen Produces Chocolate Putin Bars
On January 11 various Internet sites published photos of a chocolate bar with a photograph of the Russian President on the wrapper. These chocolate...
StopFakeNews #66 with Peter Dickinson
This week Peter Dickinson, British journalist and chief editor of Business Ukraine guest hosts StopFake News. This week’s fakes include a story about Ukrainian...
Fake: Drunken US mercenaries on a rampage in Mariupol
Last week several Russian media, including RIA Novosti, cited Eduard Basurin, the so-called “deputy chief of staff of the Donetsk Peoples Republic militia” who...
Fake: Kravchuk: a Ukrainian Crimea is unrealistic
The Russian website Ukraina.ru published a story claiming that Ukraine’s first president is advocating wide state autonomy for Crimea.
The misleading headline, claiming that Kravchuk...