The End Of Russia’s Mass Hallucination
Fresh barbed-wire fencing around the nation's main TV tower isn't exactly a sign of a confident regime, Brian Whitmore writes for RFE/RL.
In addition to reinforcing...
Roscomnadzor Head Claims Google and Apple Are ‘Relocating Servers’ to Russia
Western Internet and technology juggernauts Google and Apple may be working on moving some of their servers storing user data to Russia, according to...
Massive LiveJournal Troll Network Pushes Pro-Kremlin Narratives
Since spring 2014, thousands of fake LiveJournal blogs have been mass-posting content promoting a pro-Kremlin stance on world events, attacking Western leaders and praising Russian president Vladimir Putin. Using custom...
Putin’s Ukraine Admission and a Culture of Lies
After persistent denials, Russian President Vladimir Putin seemingly admitted to a Russian military presence in Eastern Ukraine (before he didn’t). In any “normal country”,...
StopFakeNews #65 with Nathan Pickett
This week, Nathan Pickett, a Fulbright student and a docotral candidate at the University of Kansas, guest hosts StopFake News. This week’s fakes include...
Is Pro-Russian Propaganda Fueling Czech and Slovak Paramilitary Groups?
The ability of pro-Russian propaganda to provide ideological grounding for extremist paramilitary groups has been somewhat overlooked. In the last two years, both the...
Fake: Child Care Allowance to Be Cancelled in Ukraine
Some Ukrainian and Russian media reported that child care subsidies had been cancelled in Ukraine.
The pro-Russian website Politnavigator was one of the first to...
The “Fall” of Germany or How to Change Reality
On December 19 Komsomolskaya Pravda published a diary of a certain Galina Ivanova, a Russian native from Kazan, who emigrated to Germany, first married...
Putin Exaggerates Ukraine’s Opposition Bloc Election Results
On December 17, during his annual press conference, Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin stated that the Ukrainian Opposition Bloc had won leading positions in...
Fake: Khodorkovsky Granted Ukrainian Citizenship
The claim was accompanied by a copy of a presidential decree, allegedly signed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on December 15, 2015.
The document was...