StopFake #171 with Marko Suprun
Fake: US Intelligence finds reasons for regime change in Ukraine; Europe Denies Donbas Pensions; Ukrainian soldiers reject proposed patriotic greeting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OGa523ZZd8
Rate the Most Glaring Fakes About Occupied Crimea
As the anniversary of the Russian annexation of Crimea draws upon us, StopFake presents an interactive rating of Russian fakes about Crimea. Score each fake and determine its place in our rating.
Fake: US Intelligence Finds Reasons for Regime Change in Ukraine
Last week the Russian newspaper Vzglyad featured an article claiming that the US Intelligence community’s Worldwide Threat Assessment concluded that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko may not last until Ukraine’s 2019 presidential elections.
Fake: Ukrainian Right Sector Radicals Attack Peaceful Russians in Athens
Russian media presented a recent football brawl in the Greek capital Athens as an attack on peaceful Russians tourists by radical Ukrainians from the Right Sector group.
Fake: Europe Denies Donbas Pensions
On February 13 Russian media blared with headlines such as European Court for Human Rights allows Ukraine not to pay out war zone pensions, Kyiv rejoices, European Court says not to pay Donbas seniors, Strasbourg decides Ukraine owes its citizens nothing.
Fake: Ukrainian Soldiers Reject Patriotic Greeting
Russian media claim that Ukrainian soldiers have rejected the popular post-Maidan revolution greeting Glory to Ukraine and are refusing to use it.
StopFake #170 with Romeo Kokriatsky
Fake: Ukraine Loses 50% of its GDP to Russia Sanctions ; 1.7 Million Ukrainians Asked for Asylum in Russia; Ukrainians massively fleeing to Europe; Ukrainians Pass as Gay or Communist to Gain Asylum in Europe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1SPb0HEC6g
Fake: Since 2014 1.7 Million Ukrainians Asked for Asylum in Russia
On February 7 the official Twitter account of the Russian Embassy in the UK tweeted the following: since 2014, 1.7 million Ukrainians (3.8% of total population) sought refuge in Russia.
Manipulating Ukraine’s Demographic Crisis
Russian and Ukrainian media disseminated a story this week about an impending demographic crisis looming in Ukraine and the mass flight of Ukrainians for employment in Europe.
Russian Agitprop: Ukrainians Pass as Gay or Communist to Gain Asylum in Europe
Russian media are massively disseminating an article from the Ukrainian pro-Kremlin publication Vesti which claims that in order to be granted asylum in Europe Ukrainians are resorting to pretending to be gay and communist.