Russian Archive Chief Out After Debunking Soviet WW II Legend
The longtime director of the Russian State Archive has been removed from his post less than a year after he exposed a popular Soviet...
Fake: Ukraine Curtails Freedom of Assembly
On March 14 Ukraina.ru featured a news item claiming that freedom of assembly is being curtailed in Ukraine.
Ukraina.ru claims that the UN High Commissioner...
Putin has the Right Message for Everyone
The Russian propaganda machine has been targeting Germany for some time now. The aim of this disinformation is to unnerve society. But we can...
Fake: Anti-NATO Protests Inflame Bratislava
The Serbian publication Slobodni Mediji published a story entitled Chaos in Slovakia. Anti-NATO protests set Bratislava ablaze. The article describes riots against NATO in...
Pro-Kremlin journalist Graham Phillips detained by Latvian police in Riga
Latvian police have confirmed they have detained pro-Kremlin journalist Graham Phillips during the Latvian Legionnaire’s Remembrance Day events at the Freedom Monument in Riga.
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US election 2016: Russian state TV backs ‘anti-establishment’ Trump
A top presenter on Russian state TV has come out firmly in favour of Donald Trump in his bid to become US president, hailing...
Fake: Nuland not Demanding Minsk Agreement Implementation from Ukraine
Pro-Russian media reported that during her March 15 testimony in the Senate Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland demanded...
StopFakeNews #75 with Amelia Oliver
Fulbright student Amelia Oliver Chalupa hosts the latest edition of StopFake News. This week’s fakes include claims that Ukraine will conscript suspected criminals into...
Fake: Yulia Tymoshenko Planning Coup
The Russian website Holos Pravdy published a news item claiming that the German newspaper Frankfurter Rundshau reported that Julia Tymoshenko was leading coup in...
The Rise and Fall of the Putin Propaganda Czar Who Met a Violent End
The marks of violence on the body of Mikhail Lesin have renewed suspicion that the reasons for his death lead back to his powerful...