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 Germans, Genosse.su, Russian television and various web sites reported that…
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.
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.
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.
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 President Petro Poroshenko allegedly suffering…
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 said that 17 American citizens from a private military company provoked a conflict with the residents of Mariupol.
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.
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 alleging that German Chancellor Angela Merkel insulted the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
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.
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 he allegedly advocates the introduction of Russian…