Thursday, March 28, 2024

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Fake: Ukrainian libraries, museums to charge admission

Pro-Kremlin websites published an article saying the Ukrainian parliament has adopted laws that will force Ukrainians to pay for a range of services that...

Lenta.ru Distorted the Words of Ukraine’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations

Russia’s popular Lenta.ru website used a headline which had Ukraine’s UN representative Volodymyr Yelchenko apparently dismissing Ukraine’s chances of ever regaining sovereignty over Crimea. The...

Media Presented Fake Blogger as Ukrainian Political Scientist

The website Golos Pravdy published a news story arguing that the Ukrainian president, not the Kremlin, was responsible for destroying Ukraine, citing an imaginary...

Spanish Newspaper calls Ukrainian Footballer “Fascist”

Spanish media accused Ukrainian footballer Yevhen Konoplyanka of fascism on the basis of an unverified tweet. On December 18, the Spanish newspaper La Voz de...

Fake: Germans Are Uneasy about Ukraine-Russia Debt Repayment Suit

On December 23, the Russian website Military Survey informed that Germans and German media are becoming uneasy about a judicial settlement between Ukraine and...

StopFakeNews #65 with Nathan Pickett

This week, Nathan Pickett, a Fulbright student and a docotral candidate at the University of Kansas, guest hosts StopFake News. This week’s fakes include...

Fake: Child Care Allowance to Be Cancelled in Ukraine

Some Ukrainian and Russian media reported that child care subsidies had been cancelled in Ukraine. The pro-Russian website Politnavigator was one of the first to...

Putin Exaggerates Ukraine’s Opposition Bloc Election Results

On December 17, during his annual press conference, Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin stated that the Ukrainian Opposition Bloc had won leading positions in...

Fake: Khodorkovsky Granted Ukrainian Citizenship

The claim was accompanied by a copy of  a presidential decree, allegedly signed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on December 15, 2015. The document was...

Fake: Biden Calls Ukraine the Most Corrupt State in the World

Several Ukrainian and Russian media reported that during his speech to the Ukrainian Parliament on December 8, US Vice President Joseph Biden allegedly called...