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 of Chernivtsi, a city located in southwestern Ukraine close to the Rumanian border.
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 for Ukrainians.
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 were previously free such as entry to libraries…
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.
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 Ukrainian political scientist as the source.
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 Galicia (The Voice of Galicia) informed that Yevhen Konoplyanka, who plays for FC Sevilla, had written “Glory to Ukraine!
Fake: Germans Are Uneasy about Ukraine-Russia Debt Repayment Suit
On December 23, the Russian website Military Survey informed that Germans and German media are becoming uneasy about a judicial settlement between Ukraine and Russia.
StopFakeNews #65 with Nathan Pickett
This week, Nathan Pickett, a Fulbright student and a docotral candidate at the University of Kansas, guest hosts StopFake News.
Fake: Child Care Allowance to Be Cancelled in Ukraine
Some Ukrainian and Russian media reported that child care subsidies had been cancelled in Ukraine. The pro-Russian website Politnavigator was one of the first to report this story on December 1, using the Ukrainian publication Delovaya Stolitsa as its source.
Putin Exaggerates Ukraine’s Opposition Bloc Election Results
On December 17, during his annual press conference, Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin stated that the Ukrainian Opposition Bloc had won leading positions in nine or ten Ukrainian regions in 2015…