Kremlin cash flows towards pro-Putin MEP
The so-called Latvian Human Rights Committee, connected to pro-Russian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka, received about €95,000 from the Fund for the Legal Protection and Support...
Fake: Kyiv Is Deserted, Ukrainians Are Leaving Their Country
Several Russian mass media bizarrely reported that Kyiv has become deserted as its residents are leaving the city. This was announced at a press...
Fake from Russian Foreign Minister: Yarosh Becomes Poroshenko Adviser
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, falsely stated on Dmitry Kiselyov’s program, “Vesti Nedeli,” that Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh had become an adviser...
Fake: Five Indian Airplanes Falsely Reported Missing in Ukraine
Russian mass media falsely report that five Indian airplanes have gone missing during an upgrade in Ukraine. The airplanes, An-32s, were to be upgraded...
Lithuania bans Russian language channel for “inciting discord”
This article is part of Index's media freedom mapping project that monitors censorship in the European Union
Lithuania has banned a Russian TV channel for...
Staged April Fool’s Day Prank: Protesters Throw Manure at U.S. Embassy in Kyiv
On April 3, the Lifenews website published the headline: “Protesters Throw Manure at U.S. Embassy in Kyiv.” The story goes on to report that...
Russian Trolls’ Vast Library Of Insulting Images
Ever wonder where the droves of Russian-language Internet trolls get those satirical graphics they deploy to smear Western and Ukrainian leaders? Turns out there's...
Czech Echoes of the Kremlin’s Information War
2014 marked the end of the post-Cold War era as we knew it and revived the significance of geopolitics. The turmoil in Ukraine has...
Fake: American Tanks Found in Donbas
The website for Zvezda, the television channel of the Russian Defense Ministry, incorrectly reported a news item entitled “American Military Machinery Fires at the...
Russian Propaganda Exploits Western Weakness
It is becoming clear that certain authoritarian models of government are capable of matching and, in some respects, even exceeding the accomplishments of their democratic counterparts. Whether Russia, with...