Fake: Using Foreign Policy’s Banner to Tell a Pro-Russian Story
The Russian website Ukraina.ru published a story by little-known American author Jack Smith claiming that Russia is an important player in Syria and Washington...
Fake: Putin Will Bring Down Western Economies
Various Russian web sites published a translation of a French article about an alleged Putin initiative predicted to cause an economic depression in the...
Fake: Russian Girl Kidnapped and Raped by “Refugees” in Germany
Russian media has been abuzz about an alleged rape in Berlin of a Russian girl. Referring to the website of the Convention of Russian...
Fake “ Ukrainian Nazis” are really Russian Nationalists
Last week Russia’s Defense Ministry television channel “Zvezda” published a news item claiming that Ukrainians were taught to hate Russians.
The article entitled “Cutthroat Nazism:...
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...