Political Satire Returns to Russian TV, Neutered As Ever
Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov, whose regime is widely accused of human rights crimes, is a comedy star on Russian television this week. Or rather,...
Fake: Former Ukrainian PM Yatseniuk Flees Ukraine
Citing a little known website as their source, scores of Russian media reported this week that former Ukrainian Prime Minster Arseniy Yatseniuk sold his...
Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych
On November 25 former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych was to be questioned by a Kyiv court via video link from Russia. The questioning was...
StopFakeNews #110 with Benjamin Cohen
The latest edition of StopFake News with Benjamin Cohen. Among the disinformation debunked this week. Russian Sputnik agency’s claims that life in Ukraine is...
Russia’s Sputnik Claims Life in Ukraine Worse than Ever
Russia’s government controlled news agency Sputnik declared this week that three years after the Maydan protests Ukraine was economically much worse than ever before....
Fake: Turkish Delegation Arrives in Crimea
This week Russian media disseminated a story about a Turkish delegation visiting Crimea with the goal of deepening business and political relations between the...
Fake: Ukraine to Stop Support for Crimean Tatar Mejlis
Russia’s Defense Ministry television channel Zvezda published a story this week claiming that Ukraine is reassessing its friendly relations with Turkey and considering ending...
Fake: The Exclusive Interview that Wasn’t
The Russian web publication Ukraina.ru published what it called an exclusive interview with prominent Ukrainian sociologist Iryna Bekeshkina in which she allegedly said that...
Russia’s disinformation activities and counter-measures in the Czech republic lessons for Georgia
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The policy research paper by Tornike Zurabashvili for The Clarion, with financial support of the Black Sea Trust of the German Marshall Fund. Lessons...
Rise of the fact-checker – a new democratic institution?
All across Europe, more and more independent fact-checking sites are launched to counter the move towards what some see as a post-fact or post-truth...