Russian Media Report that Rally in Support of Czech President Is Protest against Anti-Russian...
On March 8, the Russian television channel Russia 24 aired footage of a rally in Prague. They reported: “In the capital of the Czech...
London publishes photos of Russian Pantsir-S1 systems in Ukraine
The UK Foreign Office has published photos of the latest Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense systems, which have been sighted in Ukraine, BBC Ukraine reported.
The...
Why Putin Says ‘Glory to Ukraine’ – and Other Russian Anecdotes
Few nations in the world are more given to and gifted in the use of anecdotes about many things including their leaders, than the...
Clone Twitter Accounts Target RFE/RL
Imitation, they say, is the sincerest form of flattery. But it can also be an insidious form of disinformation.
On February 9, a clone account...
Fake Photos? Ukrainian Deputy Rejects U.S. Senator’s Claims Of Misinformation
Ukrainian deputy is denying claims that he provided U.S. Senate staff with photos of Russian convoys from 2008 and portrayed them as part of...
Fake: Ukrainians Must Kneel to the Right Sector
The Czech news portal Stalo-se published an article and a photo of men kneeling along a street, with the caption, “This is a salute...
Fake: Reports about Downed Boeing-777 Citing Dutch Prosecutor’s Office
On March 5, Ukrainian media sources incorrectly reported: “MH17 Airplane Was Brought Down by Russian SA-11 Gadfly – Prosecutor’s Office of the Netherlands.”
The prosecutor’s...
No Arab Spring in Russia, Yet
A lively debate has been under way for several years about the impact of the Internet on political life around the world. Some argue that the web enables opposition movements to get...
The Ukraine Plan
Following is a rough but semantically correct translation of the full text of the “Ukraine Strategy Document”, dated somewhere after February 4th 2014 and...
Why did Facebook block a Russian Propaganda Watchdog?
The near closure of an important Polish initiative countering pro-Russian propaganda this week should serve as a salutary lesson, not least for Facebook, whose...