An Open Letter to Russia’s Silent National TV Networks
Almost two dozen Russian soldiers died on July 13, when part of a military barracks in suddenly collapsed. The men who perished in the...
MH17 anniversary: In Russia, conspiracy theories on downed plane still find believers
Days after the MH17 crash, independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta seemed to have little doubt as to who was responsible.
"Forgive us, Netherlands," was the...
Fake: Members of the Right Sector Were Attacked by Helicopter Fire in Zakarpattia Oblast
On July 18 some Ukrainian mass media, mainly from Zakarpattia Oblast, wrote: “Zakarpattia Oblast turns into the area of combat operations. Today, at about...
Russia, the BUK-M1 Missile, and MH17
July 17, 2005, was the one-year anniversary of the downing Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 over the Donbass area of eastern Ukraine. On this anniversary,...
Fake: Memorial Plaque Destroyed in Kyiv
Ukrainian and Russian media falsely reported that a memorial plaque commemorating Oles Buzyna, a political writer and journalist who was murdered in Kyiv in...
British Citizen Exposed as a Tool of Russia’s FSB
Infamous British blogger Graham Phillips, who has concocted numerous pro-Kremlin reports for Russian propaganda media outlets — particularly for RT and Russia's military outlet Zvezda — in eastern Ukraine, has been...
Fake: Yatsenyuk Sides with Right Sector in Zakarpattia Oblast Conflict
On July 14, Russian and separatists’ sites (Novorossia, Regnum, RiaFAN, and REN-TV, among others) distorted comments made by Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk about...
Fake: Freelance Journalist Shot Dead in Kyiv
On July 4, Russian and Ukrainian websites, citing a Facebook post by former Ukrainian anchorman Yuriy Kot (who lives now in Russia), falsely reported...
Most Russians Don’t Know a Foreign Language, Isolating Themselves and Thus Exposed to Kremlin...
Russians lack direct access to what is happening in other countries and thus are prepared to believe what pro-Kremlin media say not because of...
British Bank Freezes Russian News Agency Rossiya Segodnya’s Account
London-based bank Barclays has frozen the accounts of major state-run Russian news agency Rossiya Segodnya, in a move that may be tied to Britain's sanctions on its firebrand chief,...