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Fake: Ukrainian soldier deserts and joins separatists; Hungary to shoot down Ukraine airplane; Ukrainian parliamentary speaker is a Neo-Nazi and an anti-Semite; Serbia says Maidan revolution really a coup. https://youtu.be/lLXua8O6JV8

Ukrainian soldier surrenders to separatist militia because of the drunkenness of his colleagues, blared the headline in the pro-Kremlin internet newspaper Ukraina.ru.

Several Russian media outlets claim that the Serbian Defense Ministry and therefore the country itself consider Euromaidan a coup d'état (Pravda news, Rambler and others).

What is a Kyiv Neo-Nazi doing in the French National Assembly, French MPs want to know – blared French Sputnik’s headline last week.

Russian state witnesses used ad hominem attacks and whataboutism - standard tactics by Vladimir Putin’s regime – in a failed attempt to achieve the extradition of Russian businessman Alexander Shapovalov from Scotland.

New projects to follow: Atlantic Council’s DisinfoPortal.org and MERICS’s Belt and Road Tracker. Lithuanian MEP Laima Andrikiene: We still need East Stratcom against Kremlin trolls; the EU’s response has been dangerously inadequate.

Russian media reported last week that Hungary sent fighter jets in pursuit of a Ukrainian aircraft that had violated the country’s airspace.

Fake:Kyiv’s involvement in the downing of MH17; Ukraine can’t stand up to Russia in the Azov Sea; Ukraine boasts about Crimea drought. https://youtu.be/8BPPoC5S-p8

When asked what advice would he give his grandchildren, Russian president Vladimir Putin responded with an answer that is uncharacteristic for a former KGB officer who has a history of magnificent mendacity behind him.

Several pro-Kremlin Russian media disseminated stories this week claiming that Ukrainian MP Mustafa Dzhemilev, the leader of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis representative council boasted about the water problems…