StopFakeNews #79 with Alexis Ramos
The latest edition of StopFake News with Fulbright Clinton fellow Alexis Ramos. This week’s fakes include claims that Dutch voters hid their faces in...
Russian National Channel Rossia 24 Lied about Ukrainian EU Quotas
On April 6 Russia’s national television channel Rossia 24aired a story presented by Olga Skabeyeva from the Netherlands where the Dutch referendum on the...
Fake Document on Crimean Tatar Autonomy
Russian media are claiming that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko aims to establish a Crimean Tatar autonomy in the southeastern Ukrainian province of Kherson and...
Fake: Transcarpathia Demands Autonomy from Kyiv
On April 7 Russian news website Lenta.ru published a news item claiming that the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine was demanding autonomy.
The source of this...
Fake: Kyiv Cuts Thousands of IDP Benefits
Russia’s national NTV channel aired a news story in early March claiming that Ukraine cut benefits of some 600,000 pensioners and internally displaced persons...
Fake: The Sad State of Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plants
On the eve of the 30th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear accident, Russia’s Lenta.ru news agency published an article entitled “The Unpeaceful Atom” criticizing...
Fake: Ukraine continues buying gas from Russia
The Spanish edition of Russia’s official Sputnik news agency has published a news story claiming that Ukraine continues buying gas from Russia while its...
Timothy Snyder: Yes to Security in Europe
By Timothy Snyder
The choice that Dutch citizens will make on 6 April is not only about a trade agreement between the European Union and...
A perversion of soft power
A Review of Putin’s Propaganda Machine. Soft power and Russian foreign policy. By: Marcel Van Herpen. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, USA, 2016.
In July...
The Kremlin’s latest propaganda bogeymen: cartoon Scottish wizards and rip-off Harry Potters
Meet the latest bogeymen in the Kremlin's propaganda war against the West: cartoon Scottish wizards.
A major new animated feature, backed by the Russian government...