StopFake #163 with Marko Suprun

Fakes: UN Fabricating Human Rights Violations in Crimea; Europe Accuses Ukraine of Flooding the EU with Heroin; UN Demands Ukraine Recognize Occupied Territory Documents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-3OK9NE3_Q

Fresh battle lines drawn in Russia’s culture wars

Outside the doors to the Moscow courthouse, the crowd of supporters, and reporters, swelled into the hundreds. Inside, one of Russia's most famous theater directors was on trial for embezzlement.

Russian Embassy in the UK Claims the US Arms and Trains Islamic State Fighters

“US training a “New Syrian Army” near refugee camp in Al-Hasakah to fight the government, core fighters of the group are ISIS terrorists allowed to leave Raqqa (as BBC has revealed)” Source: Twitter, December 16, 2017 FALSE The claims are baseless, and the BBC did not report any such story.
Eroina in Ucraina

Fake: Europe Accuses Ukraine of Flooding the EU with Heroin

Russian Defense Ministry television channel Zvezda reported that the European Commission has published a document in which it accuses Ukraine of flooding the EU with heroin.

What didn’t happen in 2017?

As the year comes to an end, one tends to look back over the past twelve months to try to sum up what has happened. But summing up the pro-Kremlin disinformation year is more about what didn’t happen.

British Intelligence Report Confirms Russian Military Origin of MH17 Murder Weapon

Today, December 20, the British Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament published its 122-page annual report.

Silencing the haters: German facebook group talks back to trolls

Reading hateful comments on social media can be distressing. According to Susanne Tannert, reading them for several hours each day requires nerves of steel. “Many of us become exhausted, discouraged; all this…

Fake: UN Fabricating Human Rights Violations in Crimea

Russian government controlled news agency Sputnik’s Spanish language version announced that Ukrainians living in Crimea were accusing the United Nations of making up human rights violations on the peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.

Manipulation: Ukraine – Europe’s Poorest Country

The poorest country in Europe: Ukrainians fleeing from poverty – such was the topic of an online press conference RIA Novosti Ukraine held on December 21.

Bild: Russia practiced war against NATO, capture of Baltics during Zapad

Russia's recent large-scale military exercise Zapad was neither an "anti-terror exercise" nor "purely defensive", but a "dry run" for a "full-scale conventional war against NATO in Europe", the German daily Bild reports, citing two analysts.