Fake: Turkey closes the Bosphorus and Dardanelless for Russia
Russian mass media has circulated a fake story claiming that Turkey has closed one of the world’s most strategic waterways to Russian vessels.
The Rosinfo...
Fake: United Nations Admits Presence of Islamists among Ukrainian Armed Forces
On November 27, the Russian television station Russia 24 broadcast a news item stating that members of the terrorist organization “Islamic State” were fighting...
StopFakeNews #62 with Christina Jarymowycz
This week, Christina Jarymowycz, a Fulbright student and PhD. candidate at Boston University, guest hosts StopFake News. Among this week's fakes, Russian and Ukrainian...
French Diplomat Says Sputnik Report Is “Fiction”
The Russian news agency Sputnik falsely reported on November 27 that a French representative in NATO, Jean-Baptiste Mattei, had “harshly” spoken about the downing...
Fake: Turkey to be Thrown Out Of NATO
Some Russian mass media are informing that Turkey will allegedly be thrown out of NATO. The Ukraina.ru website reports: “Turkey should not be a member...
Fake: Former U.S. Secretary Slams Ukraine’s “Coup d’etat”
Various websites and social networks have falsely reported that former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul Henry O'Neill had recently spoken out against the “coup d’etat"...
Fake: Germany to Send Bombers to Syria
Russian media is claiming that Germany will be sending its bombers to Syria to support France.
Gazeta.ru reports: “Germany will send Tornado bombers to Syria...
Sputnik Distorts Remarks to U.S. Senate Committee
On November 18, the English-language edition of Sputnik incorrectly reported that a committee of the U.S. Senate had been informed that the U.S. was...
Fake: Ukrainian Soldiers in Syria
Russian media and the former Internal Affairs Minister of Ukraine, Vitaliy Zakharchenko, have resurrected a debunked story about Ukrainian soldiers being sent to Syria.
The...
Fake: Poroshenko Orders Total Blokade against Crimea
On November 22, Ukraina.ru falsely reported that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had decided to “completely block up the Crimea” by putting a stop to...