LifeNews’ Fake: The Ukrainian Defense Ministry Acknowledges Failure of Mobilization
On February 2, 2015, Russia’s LifeNews television channel broke the news that Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak had confirmed the failure of the country’s...
Fake: Captured Military Man Tries to Erase “Banderivets” Tattoo
On February 2, the Russian TV channel Zvezda informed viewers that a captured Ukrainian soldier was caught attempting to scratch a tattoo off with...
RT Mistakenly Includes Finland as a Member of NATO
On February, 6 the RT website published an article with the headline “Putin Meets Merkel, Hollande behind Closed Doors in Moscow.”
The article claims that...
Tymchuk Denies so-called DPR Media Claim that He Is Protecting His Son from Conscription
The Russian site dnrtv.ru has alleged that a son of Ukrainian Parliament member and coordinator of the Informational Resistance group, Dmytro Tymchuk, protected his...
Johnson’s Russia List Spreads Invented Story About Germany Preparing Sanctions Against Kiev
Johnson’s Russia List, or JRL, run by David Johnson, is a widely-read and influential email newsletter and website, also referred to as a listserv, which...
How Putin turned Russian politics into reality TV
A review of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev describes the chilling world of modern Russia where the aim is...
Fake: Putin Breaks Pencil During Minsk Talks
TSN, Censor.net, Unian, Obozrevatel, UNN, and other Ukrainian mass media disseminated news reporting that RF President Vladimir Putin allegedly broke a pencil during negotiations...
Command Staff of DPR Wrongly States that It Could Not Attack Kramatorsk
On February, 10 shell attacks and volley fire pounded the city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region. As a result of the attack, 16...
Russia might start blocking Internet anonymizers like Tor
Leonid Levin, the head of the Duma’s committee on public communications policy, wants to grant police the extrajudicial power to block access to Internet...
Anti-Nazi Group Secretly Helping Kremlin Rebuild Russian Empire
A supposedly independent international advocacy group is backed by Russia and, in turn, works to expand its influence around the world, writes James Kirchick...