Fake: UN Gives Russia Right to Seize Ukraine in 2014
This week Russian media site Polit Online published a story claiming that the United Nations, responding to a request by former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych from 2014 calling for Russian troops to enter Ukraine, gave Russia permission to capture Ukraine.
Goebbels Techniques Inspire Russian Propaganda
Russian media are incensed that Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels’ diary will be published in a Ukrainian translation. With monotonous predictability, the Kremlin claims Ukrainians are glorifying Nazism.
Fake: Ukrainian Naval Ships Frozen
Ukrainian ships are frozen in ice, Russian media declared last week. The Defense Ministry television channel Zvezda, Sputnik, Moskovsky Komsomolets, Argumenty I Fakty all sourced the Odessa news portal O48 as their source of this gleeful but completely fake claim.
Fake: Ukraine‘s New Holiday – Day of the Avenger
Day of the Avenger – that’s what scores of Russian media called Ukraine’s Volunteer Day, a new March 14 holiday recently enacted by the Ukrainian legislature.
Fake: New Language Law Will Make Ukrainian Exclusive
Russian media are claiming that Ukraine is poised to enact a new language law which will ban Russian and make Ukrainian the sole and exclusive language in the country.
StopFakeNews #116 with Benjamin Cohen
The latest edition of StopFake News with Ben Cohen. This week’s fakes include Russia media claims that Ukrainian MPs are either criminals or crazy, yet another fake secession story, a UN approved Russian seizure of Ukraine and more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dLDMQf3AoM
Fake: Volyn And Vinnytsia Could Secede From Ukraine
Regional autonomy and local separatism are favorite topics of the Russian disinformation machine. The latest example of this theme is a story disseminated by Russian and pro-Russian Ukrainian media claiming…
Fake: Ukraine Begins Hunt For Separatists
Scores of Russian and pro-Russian publications in Ukraine disseminated news stories this week with such menacing headlines as “Ukrainian Realities: Prison for Separatism” and “Enemies of the People’s…
Fake: Ukraine Doubles Gas Consumption
On January 10 scores of Russian media featured stories claiming that Ukraine had doubled or even tripled its gas consumption due to severe winter temperatures.
StopFakeNews #115 with Paul Niland
The latest edition of StopFake News with Paul Niland. This week’s fakes include Russia media claims that US Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson named conditions for the recognizing Crimea as Russian…