Latvia moves to restrict distribution of seven RT programs. RT and Sputnik achieve higher social media engagement than reputable media outlets in France and Spain and Germany. Russian revisionism of WWII gets a helping hand from Vladimir Putin.
The StopFake Supervisory Board Position About the Escalating Information Attacks Directed Against the Project Team We are convinced that brutal, untrue articles that discredit the activities of the organization, as well as personal threats received by editors and employees are directly related to the fact-checking work of StopFake. A recent publication by journalists of the online publication “Zaborona” showed that defending the truth, StopFake journalists are facing powerful information threats.…
Russian propagandist publication Ukraina.ru claims that under the approval of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Ukrainian government intends to eliminate coal mines, the only source of income in 65 Ukrainian cities. Such news could really be very frightening for the residents of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, where mines are the only source of subsistence. The claim however is completely false. There are no plans to close down coal mines in…
Russian media completely distorted an interview that the commander of Ukraine’s Naval Forces Rear Admiral Oleksiy Neyizhpapa gave to the Odesa site Dumska, claiming that Ukraine is threatening Russia with war. In the interview Neyizhpapa spoke about Ukrainian armed forces preparing for a possible Russian attack on the south Kherson region, out of Crimea. Vesti, Rossia 24, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Obshchestvennaya sluzhba novostey, URA.ru, anti-maidan.com and many others also featured this…
Fake: Ukraine hands over nearly half of its budget to western creditors. Kyiv uses Pentagon aid against Donbas civilian population. LGBT Rainbow flag over Kyiv – a falsification of values and falsification of history.
Scores of Russian media announced last week that a delegation of European Union politicians and experts had traveled to Russian occupied Crimea on a working visit. The nine person group included five European Parliament deputies from France. Such delegations show up periodically in Crimea and Russian media gleefully call them official visits, but in reality they are private visits by pro-Russian individuals with close ties to the Kremlin. In a…
Fake: Kyiv hid primary radar data from MH17 investigation. Death at checkpoint to occupied territories caused by Ukrainian ‘provocation”. US to bomb Siberia according to Ukrainian plan.
Flying the rainbow flag over Kyiv is an attempt by Ukrainian authorities to undermine values which will end with the collapse of Ukraine. This is how Russian monarchist and orthodox internet site Tsargrad responded to the rainbow flag being attached to a controversial Soviet era monument called the Motherland as part of this year’s Kyiv Pride, further calling the event a falsification of history. Antifascist, Federalnoye Agentstvo Novostey RIAfan, Nation…
One of the Kremlin’s official mouthpieces RT featured an article earlier this month claiming that the Pentagon’s $250 million security assistance package for Ukraine amounted to “interference in the Donbas conflict which will lead to an increase in the number of victims, including among the civilian population”. This is yet another spin on Moscow’s disinformation narrative about the war in eastern Ukraine being an internal conflict and a civil war…
Fake: Ukraine to revise the EU Association Agreement because of unequal terms. Ukraine’s “murder” tax. Crimean Tatars were deported in 1944 for treason and deserting the Red Army.
