StopFake #123 with Marko Suprun
The latest edition of StopFake News with Marko Suprun. This week’s fakes include mendacious Russian claims about Ukrainians’ future visa free travel to the EU Schengen zone; Moscow claims Ukraine used a video…
Fake: Ukraine Uses Video Game as Evidence in ICJ Suit against Russia
Russian newspaper Moskovskyi Komsomolets accused Ukraine of presenting a staged video as evidence at a hearing before the UN International Court of Justice in The Hague. “As proof, Ukraine demonstrated a video…
Fake: Ukraine Deliberately Shuts off Water Supplies to Occupied Luhansk
While Russian media were busy disseminating fake stories claiming that Ukraine had deliberately cut off water supplies to the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR) in the east of the country, Ukraine repaired the damaged pumping station that was the cause of the water shutoff.
Fake: Massive European Demonstrations Supporting Donbas
Russian media reported that on March 5 Europeans staged massive demonstrations in support of Donbas, the eastern Ukrainian industrial region currently occupied by Russian- sponsored separatists.
Premiere of “Nothing but lies” documentary film in Kyiv
On the occasion of the third anniversary of the fact-checking project StopFake, a documentary film by Tim White's "Nothing but lies: Fighting fake news" (UK) will premiere in Kyiv.
StopFakeNews #122 with Marko Suprun
The latest edition of StopFake News with Marko Suprun. This week’s fakes include Russian media dismissing the positives of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, claims that Ukraine’s currency market will…
Fake: Europe Accuses Ukraine of Increasing Radioactivity
At the end of February several Russian publications claimed that European countries were accusing Ukraine of releasing a radioactive isotope into the continent’s atmosphere.
Fake: German Media against Eurovision in Kyiv
German media are against holding the 2017 Eurovision Song contest in Kyiv, declared the Russian news site Politexpert at the end of February.
Fake: Ukraine’s Currency Market Will Collapse Without Transfers from Russia
Russian media are rife with stories that the State Duma is poised to ban all money transfers to Ukraine without opening an account.
Russian Media Negate Positives of EU-Ukraine Association Agreement
The European Commission recently published the results of Ukraine-EU cooperation within the Association and free trade agreement.