Fake: US Ambassador to Russia Calls for Lifting of Russia Sanctions
Russia Today completely misrepresented the position of the American Ambassador to Russia regarding the lifting of sanctions against the Russian Federation. RT’s story entitled...
TASS: UN Concerned about Falling Ukrainian Standard of Living
Earlier this week scores of Russian media (Vzglyad, Euronews, Russkaya planeta, Nezavisimaya gazeta, Pronedra and others) disseminated a TASS story claiming that the UN...
Fake: Ukraine Launches Federalization
Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced recently that the process of federalization has begun in Ukraine.
“Call it what you want, decentralization, federalization. That’s...
Russian TV Lies: Exchanged Russian Officers Did Not Ask for Clemency
Russia’s television network Channel Five broadcast a story in their May 29 weekly program about the exchange of Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko for two...
Fake: German Town of Quakenbrück To Recognize Crimea as Part of Russia
Russian media has devoted a great deal of attention to a German town called Quakenbrück in the northwestern Lower Saxony region. According to Ria...
StopFakeNews #84 with Brian Mefford
The latest edition of StopFake News with Brian Mefford. This week’s fakes include Russian claims that Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko recently released from...
Fake: Ukrainian Amassing Military Hardware near Crimea
On May 27, citing an unnamed source Russian media reported that Ukraine was amassing troops on the demarcation line with Crimea. RIA Novosti first...
Fake: Savchenko Writes Ukrainian Mein Kampf
Russian military channel Zvezda broadcast a news item claiming that recently released Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko has written a Ukrainian „Mein Kampf“.
No sooner had...
Fake: Savchenko vows to “kill Russians”
Russian media are disseminating stories claiming that Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who returned home after nearly two years of imprisonment in Russia, vowed to...
Fake: Ukraine Turning into Europe’s Nuclear Dump
Russia’s official government publication Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports that Ukraine can potentially become a “nuclear dump” because of increased international financing for the construction of...