StopFake

Last week Russian media such as NTV, Ukraina.ru, RIA Novosti and others featured stories claiming that the Ukrainian government would be forcing all residents of annexed Crimea and occupied Donbas territories to request pardons for supporting the separatist cause and ask for forgiveness.

In recent years, Russia has ramped up its influence operations in the Western Balkans. Utilizing propaganda and disinformation, Moscow stirs lingering regional tensions and undermines the EU’s credibility in Western Balkans nations.

Fake: European gas costs Ukraine four times more than Russian gas; Ukraine buys locomotives from failing American company ; Ukrainians are saving for their pensions in Poland https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EHLcHKzJI3c&feature=youtu.be

Russian media launched a series of stories this week claiming that Ukraine’s military command announced a punitive campaign aimed at cleaning up Russian occupied Donbas and an offensive against Crimea.

After the Stockholm Arbitration Court ordered Russia’s Gazprom gas company to pay more than $2.5 billion to Ukrainian energy firm Naftogaz for having underused the Ukrainian transit system to deliver gas to…

To whom and why did Russian President Vladimir Putin address in his impressively aggressive Federal Assembly speach delivered on 1 March? As usual, the pundits disagree.

Russian propagandist site Ukraina.ru ran a story last week claiming that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was saving a sinking American company, General Electric (GE) by purchasing the company’s locomotives.

Fake: Ukraine training terrorists for European and Middle East operations; Ukraine readies army and nationalists for war; The student strike that never was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNSkZgdjD1w

Until recently, Ukrainian culture was perceived internationally as a subset of Russian culture. Even now, after Ukraine has had almost twenty-seven years of independence and with hundreds of years of history behind it, Ukrainian history is often presented as Russian.

Twitter is banning the methods used by bots and trolls to spread false stories on the network. Twitter users will no longer be able to post identical messages from multiple accounts or use software to perform other simultaneous actions.