Military provocations prove Putin is playing with fire
Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing a very dangerous game. On July 4, while Americans celebrated Independence Day, a cinematic, tension-filled drama unfolded along...
Strange Civil War: Why Western media should be wary of parroting Kremlin’s Ukraine narrative
The recent BBC interview with fugitive ex-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych sparked a flood of sniggers and online memes revolving around the disgraced former leader’s...
Russian Media Distort American Magazine Article
Russian media services, including Russia Today, Russkaya Vesna, Nabat, MonaVista and Russkiy Puls, published translated extracts from an article from the American magazine The...
Fake: Default by Ukraine’s Two Largest Banks Is Inevitable
On July 10, Russian, Ukrainian, and separatist media falsely reported about the impending defaults of Ukraine’s two largest banks – Privatbank and Oshchadbank.
RIA Novosti,...
How to Avoid Spending Eternity on a Twitter Search
Let’s begin by asking, could you find original witness tweets on Twitter about the crash of Malaysia Airlines MH17 in Ukraine?
It is not enough...
Russian Media Falsely Cite New York Times
Several Russian and separatist media distorted a New York Times article and reported that the newspaper had written about “the extermination of ethnic Russians...
Fake: Use of “Russia” and “Rus” to Be Punished by Imprisonment in Ukraine
On July 7, Russian media reported that Ukrainian Parliament member Oksana Korchynska registered the bill №2276а that supposedly proposes to punish the use of...
ABC7Chicago: Durbin letter to Ukrainian’s prime minister – fake
Somebody is trying to pull one over on the Russians and the Ukrainians, and Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin has been put in the middle...
Russia Bans Internet Database Archive
Internet users in Russia will no longer be able to access a massive database of cached webpages, apparently due to one single website authorities...
Fake: U.S. to Pay Saakashvili’s Salary
After a meeting between Odesa Governor Mikheil Saakashvili and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, Russian media distorted a Saakashvili post on Facebook.
The original...