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Scores of Russian media manipulated statements made by US Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson during his congressional confirmation hearing, claiming that Tillerson named the conditions under which America would be prepared to recognize Crimea as Russian territory.

RT-Ruptly TV aired a segment on the Austrian Foreign Minister’s Sebastian Kurz’s recent visit to the eastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol entitled Austrian FM backs Russo-Western unity on first tour of Donbass as OSCE chair.

Russian media regularly disseminate fake stories about regional autonomy in Ukraine. The latest version of this favorite theme concerns the Polish minority in western Ukrainian, who according to Russian media are demanding economic autonomy and closer integration with Poland.

The StopFake organization has launched a new monthly newspaper called Your Right to Know aimed at Ukraine’s occupied territories in the eastern Donbas region.

Last December the British Independent newspaper published a story about the most dangerous cities in Europe, allegedly based on the Mercer company’s quality of living ranking.

The latest edition of StopFake News with Marko Suprun. This week fake videos are used to illustrate renewed fighting in Russian separatist occupied Eastern Ukraine; to quote Mark Twain, the death of the…

Russian media have interpreted the recent currency fluctuation in Ukraine as a complete collapse of the national currency, the hryvnia.

Scores of Ukrainian and Russian media published a video this week of what purports to be a battle between Ukrainian military and Russian separatists in Donetsk oblast of eastern Ukraine.

The latest edition of StopFake News with Romeo Kokriatski. Among the disinformation debunked this week: unhappy with Ukraine, Washington looks to replace President Poroshenko, Ukrainian army tank crushes…

Russian and Ukrainian media were up in arms last week about a new café that allegedly opened in Lviv with the scandalous name “First Lviv Slut café”.