US Ambassador on Ukraine’s Information Policy: Don’t Follow Russia’s Example
Ukraina.ru published a story claiming that US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt “criticized Ukraine’s policy in the information war” and warned the Ukrainian government not to create a “a troll factory” to churn out counterpropaganda on social media.
Fake: Azov Battalion continues to threaten the Netherlands
Another sinister video has appeared on a YouTube channel which purports to be the work of Ukraine’s controversial Azov Battalion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ebnysVmhDc Last month a video appeared in…
StopFakeNews #69 with Irena Chalupa
This week, Irena Chalupa, journalist and Fulbright scholar hosts StopFake News. Among this week’s fakes: Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Lies about Russia’s Budapest Memorandum Obligation to Ukraine…
Fake: the Netherlands Accuse Ukraine of criminality in the MH17 Investigation
Russian media have reported that the Netherlands accused Ukraine of criminality during the investigation of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 which crashed over eastern Ukraine after being hit by a Russian Buk missile.
Fake: EU Countries Massively Denying Visas to Ukrainians
The newspaper Vesti has published a story with this misleading headline: “Ukrainians in mass rush for visas: such hopelessness not seen even in the 1990s”.
Russia Media Scaring Moldova with Fake Restitution
Pro-Russian media in Moldova are spreading news of the imminent restitution of historical land and property held by Ukrainian citizens to Poland and similarly of Moldovans having to return land and property to Rumania.
Russian Media Calls Mentally Unstable German Citizen “Refugee”
Russia’s Channel Five television channel published a story entitled “Refugee pushes 20 year old girl under a train in Berlin”.
Fake: Lavrov Lies about Russia’s Budapest Memorandum Obligation to Ukraine
During a January 26 press conference summing up Kremlin’s foreign policy in 2015, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced that Russia did not violate the Budapest memorandum, which according to Lavrov contains only one commitment “not to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine”.
Fake: 20 Soldiers Die From Leaked Mysterious Virus
On January 26 the webside Pravda.ru ran a news item claiming that 20 Ukrainian soldiers died and 200 were hospitalized with the deadly California flu virus outside the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
Putin’s Selective Reading Of Soviet History
Russian President Vladimir Putin often accuses the West of distorting history. But in his latest comments about Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin and his successor, Josef Stalin, Putin’s penchant for shaping history to suit his goals was on stark display, Merhat Sharipzhan wrote for RFE/RL.