Fake:Ukraine soliciting funds to host Eurovision 2017
Russian website Ukraina.ru ran a story about Ukraine’s preparation for the 2017 Eurovision song contest in which it implied that Kyiv is soliciting funds...
Fake: IMF won’t grant Ukraine new tranche of funds
The internet publication Kiev Times announced that the IMF would not give Ukraine any more bailout funds, Russia’s official international network RT immediately followed...
StopFakeNews #92 with Askold Krushelnycky
The latest edition of StopFake News with British journalist Askold Krushelnycky. Among this week’s fakes, claims that Ukraine disrupted the 2016 Sea Breeze military...
Fake: Finnish farmers losing out because of Russian sanctions
According to Russian agencies RIA Novosti, Sputnik, RuNews 24, Argumenty nedeli, Ekonomika Segodnya Finnish farmers’ profits are falling because of Russia’s embargo on European...
Fake: Kirovograd residents overwhelmingly prefer tsarist era name
Russian government daily newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta announced last week that Ukraine disregarded the majority opinion of Kirovohrad residents and renamed this central Ukrainian city...
Fake: Naval NATO Sea Breeze exercises disrupted because of Ukraine
On July 18 RIA Novosti reported on its website that the Sea Breeze 2016 joint US-Ukrainian military exercises were unable to proceed because of...
Fake: European Parliament accuses Poroshenko of political repression
Ukraina.ru reported this week that members of the European Parliament are calling on Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to stop political repression in Ukraine while...
StopFakeNews #91 with Marta Dyczok
The latest edition of StopFake News with Western Ontario University professor Marta Dyczok. Among this week’s fakes - Russian mockery of Ukrainians’ grasp of...
MH17 – The Open Source Investigation, Two Years Later
Today Bellingcat releases its latest report, “MH17 – The Open Source Investigation, Two Years Later”, bringing together two years of research by Bellingcat into...
Russian media distort Ukrainian poll results
Disenchanted Ukrainians give up on their government, announced RIA Novosti Ukraine. “The latest polls won’t please the Ukrainian powers that be, writes the publication,...