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...
StopFakeNews #64 with Irena Chalupa
Among this week’s fakes are Russian media claims that US Vice President Joe Biden proposed to federalize Ukraine. Western and Russian media both inaccurately...
Photo Fake: Kyiv Residents Kneel before Biden
During US Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Kyiv social networks and some pro-Russian websites posted a photo of people kneeling on outside the...
Fake: Biden Proposes to Federalize Ukraine
The Russian news website Golos Pravdy reported in his speech to the Ukrainian parliament, U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden allegedly declared that Ukraine needed...
Dnipropetrovsk Football Club “Dnipro” denied information about the dissolution of the team
Ukrainian media reported on December 9 that the Dnipropetrovsk FC “Dnipro” may be disbanded because its main players are intending to leave.
The football club’s...