StopFakeNews #70 with Mark Rachkevych
This week Kyiv Post journalist Mark Rachkevych guest hosts StopFake News. This week’s fakes include a story about continued Azov threats against the Netherlands;...
Fake: Shevchenko Statue Demolished in Zaporizhzhia Region
On February 6, Ukrainian and Russian media actively spread the news that a monument to Ukraine’s national poet Taras Shevchenko was demolished in Tokmak,...
Fake: Ukrainian Train Lost in Kazakhstan
On February 1 the Russian site Lenta.ru, followed by various Ukrainian and Russian publications reported that a Ukrainian train headed for China and traveling...
Fake: Zaporizhzhia City Council Rejects Ukrainian Language
Zaporizhzhia city government has opted to abandon using Ukrainian on its official internet page, writes the website Holos Pravdy. As practically all local media...
US Ambassador on Ukraine’s Information Policy: Don’t Follow Russia’s Example
Ukraina.ru published a story claiming that US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt “criticized Ukraine’s policy in the information war” and warned the Ukrainian government not to...
Gulliver Cragg: Lessons from an outrageous film
Paul Moreira, a French filmmaker, is famous for hard-hitting investigations that show viewers “what the authorities don’t want you to see.” So French-speaking reporters...
An alleged rape sparked tensions between Russia and Germany. Now police say it was...
Over the past few years, Germany's relationship with Russia has repeatedly proven important for the West. Yet a mysterious disappearance and rumors of a horrific crime...
Just How Bad is Putin? Ever More People Are Counting the Ways
As the number of Vladimir Putin’s violations of international law and normal morality grows, ever more people are offering lists of the actions for...
Putin vs. Lenin?
Last week, AP reported that President Putin had “denounced Lenin and his Bolshevik government for their brutal repressions and accused him of having placed...
Fake: Azov Battalion continues to threaten the Netherlands
Another sinister video has appeared on a YouTube channel which purports to be the work of Ukraine’s controversial Azov Battalion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ebnysVmhDc
Last month a video appeared...