Fake: Western Ukrainians don’t know Ukrainian
Russia’s federal news agency RIAFAN published a story claiming that residents of western Ukraine don’t know the Ukrainian language. According to RIAFA official Ukrainian...
Fake: Shipbuilding disappears in Ukraine
Russian publication Ukraina.ru published a story this week claiming that shipbuilding as an industry had all but disappeared in Ukraine.
The publication’s source for this...
StopFakeNews #95 with Marko Suprun
The latest edition of StopFake News with Marko Suprun. Among this week’s fakes: claims that Ukrainian military bars OSCE monitors access to the war...
Fake: Ukrainian politicians support Crimea sabotage
The publication Ukraina.ru manipulated the content of a Facebook post by Ukrainian MP Semen Semenchenko, in which he allegedly justifies subversion in Crimea and...
Fake: Ukraine stops pension payments to Donbas IDPs
The Russian website Ukraina.ru reported that according to Social Policy Minister Andriy Reva, Ukraine cut the pension payments for 300,000 Donbas retirees.
Reva did not...
Fake: Hillary Clinton seriously ill
Russian media reported massively that Americans are concerned about Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s state of health. The source of this concern is...
Fake: Ukrainian military bar OSCE observers from war zone
Officials from the separatist Luhansk National Republic announced that Ukrainian military barred OSCE Special Monitoring Mission observers from entering the town of Druzhba in...
StopFakeNews #94 with Michael Getto
The latest edition of StopFake News with public policy and electoral consultant Michael Getto. Among this week’s fakes, more claims that southern Ukraine is...
Russian media mocks new Ukrainian coin commemorating Crimean Tatar deportation
The Russian publication Lenta.ru published a manipulative news story claiming that Ukraine has issued a new coin in which the Crimean peninsula is pictured...
Fake: Spanish media call Ukrainian coat of arms ultra-nationalist and paramilitary
On August 4 scores of Spanish publications circulated a story about Ukrainian footballer Roman Zozulya claiming he arrived in Seville wearing a t-shirt with...