Moldova: Examining the Russian Media Factor in Protests
The ongoing protest in the Moldovan capital Chișinău is posing a fresh test of Russian state-controlled media’s ability to project Kremlin geopolitical preferences.
Regional analysts...
StopFakeNews #51 [ENGLISH] with Nick Piazza
This week Nick Piazza, CEO of SP Advisors, is StopFakeNews’s guest anchor.
Russia Today continues its bogus practice of claiming that anonymous bloggers are experts...
Poland hosts meeting on countering Russian propaganda
The Polish foreign ministry will on Thursday (10 September) host a donors' conference in Warsaw for a project aimed at countering Russian propaganda.
Polish media...
Map recording threats to journalists in Europe relaunches and expands to Russia, Ukraine and...
Index on Censorship, the European Federation of Journalists and Reporters Without Borders are delighted to announce the expansion and redesign of Mapping Media Freedom,...
Officials Deny that Separatist Party to Participate in Ukraine’s Local Elections
On September 10, several media outlets incorrectly reported that a political party of one of the leaders of so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DPR), Denys...
Fake: Poroshenko Admits Advantage of a Federal State
The pro-Russian, separatist website Russkaya Vesna posted a misleading news item entitled, «Poroshenko Got Confused and Admitted that a Federation is the Right Thing...
Russian Media Claim that European Commission President Predicts War and Ruin for Ukraine
On September 9, the television channel of the Russian Ministry, Zvezda, reported on its website: "Civil war and total ruin, which are in Syria,...
Supporting a War that isn’t: Russian Public Opinion and the Ukraine Conflict
Russian public opinion on the Ukraine crisis is poorly understood. In most of the discussion of opinion polls, there is a strong focus on...
Kremlin Trolls and Other Acquaintances of Russian embassy in Canada
When you build out a network based on the Russian Embassy in Ottawa, the first thing you notice are the non-Canadian trolls most closely...
Moscow-created ‘illusory Maidan’ in Mensk to set stage for Russian intervention, Kirillova says
Russia is currently seeking to raise the prospect of an “illusory” Maidan in Belarus to set the stage for Russia to intervene militarily in...