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...
Fake: Ukrainian libraries, museums to charge admission
Pro-Kremlin websites published an article saying the Ukrainian parliament has adopted laws that will force Ukrainians to pay for a range of services that...
Lenta.ru Distorted the Words of Ukraine’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations
Russia’s popular Lenta.ru website used a headline which had Ukraine’s UN representative Volodymyr Yelchenko apparently dismissing Ukraine’s chances of ever regaining sovereignty over Crimea.
The...
Media Presented Fake Blogger as Ukrainian Political Scientist
The website Golos Pravdy published a news story arguing that the Ukrainian president, not the Kremlin, was responsible for destroying Ukraine, citing an imaginary...
Spanish Newspaper calls Ukrainian Footballer “Fascist”
Spanish media accused Ukrainian footballer Yevhen Konoplyanka of fascism on the basis of an unverified tweet.
On December 18, the Spanish newspaper La Voz de...