Fake: Ukraine stops pension payments to Donbas IDPs
The Russian website Ukraina.ru reported that according to Social Policy Minister Andriy Reva, Ukraine cut the pension payments for 300,000 Donbas retirees.
Reva did not...
Fake: Hillary Clinton seriously ill
Russian media reported massively that Americans are concerned about Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s state of health. The source of this concern is...
Fake: Ukrainian military bar OSCE observers from war zone
Officials from the separatist Luhansk National Republic announced that Ukrainian military barred OSCE Special Monitoring Mission observers from entering the town of Druzhba in...
StopFakeNews #94 with Michael Getto
The latest edition of StopFake News with public policy and electoral consultant Michael Getto. Among this week’s fakes, more claims that southern Ukraine is...
Russian media mocks new Ukrainian coin commemorating Crimean Tatar deportation
The Russian publication Lenta.ru published a manipulative news story claiming that Ukraine has issued a new coin in which the Crimean peninsula is pictured...
Fake: Spanish media call Ukrainian coat of arms ultra-nationalist and paramilitary
On August 4 scores of Spanish publications circulated a story about Ukrainian footballer Roman Zozulya claiming he arrived in Seville wearing a t-shirt with...
Fake: International observers claim Ukraine is ignoring the Minsk agreement
Russian television program Vesti and its corresponding web site reported this week that international observers have verified that Ukraine is ignoring the Minsk agreement.
The...
StopFakeNews #93 with Brian Mefford
The latest edition of StopFake News with political consultant Brian Mefford. Among this week’s fakes, sanctions, Belgium and the Finnish farmer, claims Ukraine is...
French MPs visit Crimea; Russian propaganda celebrates
A group of French parliamentarians recently visited the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014. The visit was not official and did not have...
Fake: ISIS training camps in southern Ukraine
At the end of July several Russian sites ran stories devoted to one of their favorite disinformation topics, that Ukraine is a training ground...