StopFakeNews #54 [ENGLISH] with Jim Kovpak
This week, journalist and blogger Jim Kovpak is the StopFake News guest anchor. Russian and pro-Russian media report that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was...
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Waging a Proxy War on Russian Journalism
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The news agency's...
Fake: Ukraine Announces New Foreign Policy towards Africa
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Russian and Separatist Media Distort Savchenko’s Words
On September 29, Russian and separatist media mockingly distorted a comment made by a Ukrainian politician and pilot who is now being tried in...
When Online Kremlin Propaganda Leaves the Web, It Looks Like This
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