StopFakeNews #67 with Irena Chalupa
This week, Irena Chalupa, journalist and Fulbright scholar hosts StopFake News. Among this week’s fakes: creative use of photos tries to pass off Russian...
Fake: Nuland Warned Surkov of “an Inevitable NATO Attack”
Russia’s largest "news" machine RT, or Russia Today as it was formerly known, published an article claiming that Victoria Nuland warned Russians about an...
Fake: Using Foreign Policy’s Banner to Tell a Pro-Russian Story
The Russian website Ukraina.ru published a story by little-known American author Jack Smith claiming that Russia is an important player in Syria and Washington...
Fake: Putin Will Bring Down Western Economies
Various Russian web sites published a translation of a French article about an alleged Putin initiative predicted to cause an economic depression in the...
Fake: Russian Girl Kidnapped and Raped by “Refugees” in Germany
Russian media has been abuzz about an alleged rape in Berlin of a Russian girl. Referring to the website of the Convention of Russian...
Fake “ Ukrainian Nazis” are really Russian Nationalists
Last week Russia’s Defense Ministry television channel “Zvezda” published a news item claiming that Ukrainians were taught to hate Russians.
The article entitled “Cutthroat Nazism:...
Fake: Poroshenko claims to be the reincarnation of both a Cossack and a Nationalist...
The website LiveKuban , a news site serving Russia’s Krasnodar region published a particularly peculiar item about something Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko allegedly said.
Live...
Fake: Roshen Produces Chocolate Putin Bars
On January 11 various Internet sites published photos of a chocolate bar with a photograph of the Russian President on the wrapper. These chocolate...
StopFakeNews #66 with Peter Dickinson
This week Peter Dickinson, British journalist and chief editor of Business Ukraine guest hosts StopFake News. This week’s fakes include a story about Ukrainian...
Fake: Drunken US mercenaries on a rampage in Mariupol
Last week several Russian media, including RIA Novosti, cited Eduard Basurin, the so-called “deputy chief of staff of the Donetsk Peoples Republic militia” who...