Fake: Transcarpathia Separates Economically from Kyiv
Russia’s national REN TV channel published a story claiming that Transcarpathia, a regions in western Ukraine bordering on Hungary, separated economically from the Ukrainian...
Fake: Russia Sanctions Running Ukrainian Economy into the Ground
Ukraine’s prolongation of sanctions against Russia have caused a tumultuous Russian response in particular from Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Member Sergey Zheleznyak, who said...
Fake: Russian Militant Motorola Killed by Latvian Mercenary
After Russian separatist militant Arseny Pavlov known as Motorola was killed by an explosion in the elevator of his apartment building in Donetsk, stories...
Fake: Right Radicals Beat Up Kharkiv Children for Speaking Russian
Scores of Russian media – the Defense Ministry television channel Zvezda, REN TV, Sputnik Novosti, Radio Mayak, Russkiy Mir and others – published a...
Fake: Motorola Fascist Killer Video
This week Russian and western media made wide use of a video of masked young men claiming they were responsible for the death of...
StopFakeNews #104 with Benjamin Cohen
The latest edition of StopFake News with Benjamin Cohen. Among the disinformation debunked this week: American snipers in the Donbas, International MH17 Investigation Team...
Fake: Ukraine Fears Mass Exodus if Russian Visas are Introduced
Russia’s national news agency RIA Novosti claimed this week that Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry fears a mass exodus of its citizenry if visas with Russia...
Fake: University Student Expelled for Asking President Poroshenko “Uncomfortable Question”
Russian and Ukrainian media are disseminating a story claiming that a student who asked Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko if he would send his children...
Fake: Polls Show Majority of Ukrainians Don’t Want To Vote
Manipulating the results of polls is a favorite tool in the Russian disinformation toolkit. The latest example of this tried and true method is...
StopFakeNews #103 with Romeo Kokriatski
The latest edition of StopFake News with Romeo Kokriatski. Among the disinformation debunked this week: Russia claims that Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko arrested in...