The Flaws of the Putinversteher’s Russian Hermeneutics
How the escapist axioms of Western apologies of Kremlin policies distort our understanding of the origins and motives of Russia’s current domestic and foreign...
Fake: Gas Station Owners Refuse to Lower Fuel Prices
Golos Pravdy claims that Ukraine’s largest gas station owners have refused to lower petrol prices, going against the recommendations of Ukraine’s Energy Minister.
Seemingly this...
StopFakeNews #67 with Irena Chalupa
This week, Irena Chalupa, journalist and Fulbright scholar hosts StopFake News. Among this week’s fakes: creative use of photos tries to pass off Russian...
Fake: Nuland Warned Surkov of “an Inevitable NATO Attack”
Russia’s largest "news" machine RT, or Russia Today as it was formerly known, published an article claiming that Victoria Nuland warned Russians about an...
Fake: Using Foreign Policy’s Banner to Tell a Pro-Russian Story
The Russian website Ukraina.ru published a story by little-known American author Jack Smith claiming that Russia is an important player in Syria and Washington...
Fake: Putin Will Bring Down Western Economies
Various Russian web sites published a translation of a French article about an alleged Putin initiative predicted to cause an economic depression in the...
Fake: Russian Girl Kidnapped and Raped by “Refugees” in Germany
Russian media has been abuzz about an alleged rape in Berlin of a Russian girl. Referring to the website of the Convention of Russian...
Triangulating Sources to Thin the Fog of War
This article is part of a larger guidebook by RuNet Echo to help people learn how to conduct open-source research on the Russian Internet....
Stereotypes paralyze Russia’s potential for change
The Russian opposition and Western analysts have pointed out repeatedly that Russia’s authorities are actually a “Chekist clan” – former KGB officers who obtained...
Fake “ Ukrainian Nazis” are really Russian Nationalists
Last week Russia’s Defense Ministry television channel “Zvezda” published a news item claiming that Ukrainians were taught to hate Russians.
The article entitled “Cutthroat Nazism:...