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Fake: Crimeans who Left the Peninsula after Russian Annexation Returning Home

Crimeans, who massively left the peninsula after it was annexed by Russia in 2014, are beginning to return home, announced Grigoriy Ioffe, the chairman...

StopFake #194 with Marko Suprun

Fake: Ukraine troops kill separatist defector. Cholera found in the Azov Sea. President Poroshenko allows lumber smuggling to the EU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWe-OQEwo98

Fake: Donbas Talks on Prisoner Exchange Collapse because of Ukraine

Scores of Russian media reported that the latest talks on prisoner exchanges between Ukraine  and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics held in...

Russia tries everything to blacken reputation of White Helmets

By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake Russia escalated its long-running hate campaign against the White Helmets Syrian rescue group in response to the evacuation over...

Fake: Ukraine Troops Kill Separatist Defector

The Ukrainian military killed a separatist militant who wanted to take advantage of the Ukrainian Security Service’s  (SBU) “They’re Waiting for you at Home”...

Fake: Poroshenko Allows Lumber Smuggling to EU

“Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko authorizes lumber smuggling to EU countries” declared a July 23 headline in the pro-Kremlin internet site Ukraina.ru. Having vetoed a...

Russian influence in Montenegro: disinformation, threats and attempted regime change

By EU vs Disinfo A recent debate about Montenegro’s NATO membership has put the spotlight on this Western Balkan country. But it is not the...

StopFake #193 with Marko Suprun

Fake Multinational Black Sea exercises aggravate Donbas conflict; European Court of Human Rights says Russian government not involved in opposition journalist’s murder; Novichok? Cynaide?...

Fabricated treason and espionage cases prop Putin up in power

By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake Russia’s Foreign Ministry is supporting its accused spy in the United States Maria Butina with the hashtag #FreeMariaButina despite...

Fake: Cholera Found in the Azov Sea

One of Russian propaganda’s central narratives is that Ukraine poses a threat to its neighbors and to the world community,  and alarming fakes about...