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Putin shatters atheism in five minutes, a video that Argentinian singer and actor Emmanuel Danann published on his YouTube channel on August 18 has been viewed by more than half a million people.

Russian media misrepresented Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko this week, claiming that he admitted returning Russian annexed Crimea back to Ukraine at the present time is unrealistic.

The latest edition of StopFake News with Marko Suprun. Among the disinformation debunked this week: Ukraine to introduce food rations; Ukraine’s tuberculosis epidemic threatens the EU; Ukraine's new secret weapon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZPnRB1I-1g&t=8s

This week several Russian sites – RT, Vesti, Ukraina.ru - published articles claiming that the European Union is seeing renewed outbreaks of tuberculosis because of the visa free regime with Ukraine.

At the end of August Russia’s Federal News Agency (RIAFAN) published an article claiming that Ukraine was poised to introduce food ration cards.

Russian Defense Ministry television channel Zvezda presented a blog written by a university professor as the opinion of American media.

The latest edition of StopFake News with Marko Suprun. Among the disinformation debunked this week: Russian deported journalist and her alternative fact atories, Ukraine a US biological testing site, Glory to Ukraine is a Nazi greeting. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UvJi8a2QlKQ

This week Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) deported Anna Kurbatova, a journalist working for Russia’s state TV Perviy Kanal (Channel One) and banned her for three years amidst accusations of biased coverage.

This week both Russian and Ukrainian media disseminated a story claiming that European Commission President Jean Claude Junker said that Ukraine is not the European Union or NATO.

Russia’s NTV channel published a news story claiming that a greeting from “bloody” Poroshenko to the city of Donetsk outraged city scores of people on social media.