Fake: Poroshenko claims to be the reincarnation of both a Cossack and a Nationalist...
The website LiveKuban , a news site serving Russia’s Krasnodar region published a particularly peculiar item about something Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko allegedly said.
Live...
Fake: Roshen Produces Chocolate Putin Bars
On January 11 various Internet sites published photos of a chocolate bar with a photograph of the Russian President on the wrapper. These chocolate...
StopFakeNews #66 with Peter Dickinson
This week Peter Dickinson, British journalist and chief editor of Business Ukraine guest hosts StopFake News. This week’s fakes include a story about Ukrainian...
Fake: Drunken US mercenaries on a rampage in Mariupol
Last week several Russian media, including RIA Novosti, cited Eduard Basurin, the so-called “deputy chief of staff of the Donetsk Peoples Republic militia” who...
Fake: Kravchuk: a Ukrainian Crimea is unrealistic
The Russian website Ukraina.ru published a story claiming that Ukraine’s first president is advocating wide state autonomy for Crimea.
The misleading headline, claiming that Kravchuk...
Fake: Merkel Insults Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk
The Russian website Optimist has once again used well respected international media as a source for a fake.
On January 4 Optimist posted a story...
Fake: Ukrainian president hospitalized with alcohol poisoning
Russian website Optimist published a story claiming that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was hospitalized in a state of heavy alcohol intoxication.
This fake about Poroshenko...
Fake: Russian Security Council Secretary wants to send Russian troops into the Baltics
On January 2 the Latvian news portal Vesti.lv published a purported interview with the secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolay Patrushev in which...
Fake: Austria to pay a 60 euro subsidy to Chernivtsi residents
Two Ukrainian regional news websites Chernivtsiinfo and Antikor published stories claiming that Austria will pay a subsidy of 60 euros to each working resident...
Fake: Poroshenko plans to block visa free entry of Ukrainians to Russia
Russian website Ukraina.ru wrote that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced his intention to introduce new travel documents which would end visa-free entry into Russia...