Fake: Ukrainian president hospitalized with alcohol poisoning
Russian website Optimist published a story claiming that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was hospitalized in a state of heavy alcohol intoxication.
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Fake: Russian Security Council Secretary wants to send Russian troops into the Baltics
On January 2 the Latvian news portal Vesti.lv published a purported interview with the secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolay Patrushev in which...
Fake: Austria to pay a 60 euro subsidy to Chernivtsi residents
Two Ukrainian regional news websites Chernivtsiinfo and Antikor published stories claiming that Austria will pay a subsidy of 60 euros to each working resident...
Russia propaganda machine gains on U.S.
Russia has reorganized and intensified its international propaganda machine so effectively over the past decade that some Western lawmakers and diplomats say Washington now...
Writing in the Kremlin’s Shadow
"The problem with “Walter Cronkite and the rest of them,” the American correspondents in Moscow, my grandmother used to tell me, was that all...
Brave New War: a new form of conflict emerged in 2015
From China in Asia to Russia in Europe and the Middle East, and ISIS just about everywhere, 2015 has seen the flourishing of conflicts...
Kazan Arrests Pro-Moscow Critic under Terms of Russia’s Anti-Extremist Law
Rais Suleymanov, a Tatar who has sharply criticized Kazan for supposedly assisting the rise of radical Islam in the Middle Volga and for failing...
Greek news agency ANA-MPA starts editorial cooperation with Sputnik
The ANA-MPA will launch a new international 'news journey' in collaboration with the Russian news agency Sputnik on New Year's Day, with two new...
Russia: Blogger Sentenced to Five Years Imprisonment
In response to a Russian court sentencing blogger Vadim Tyumentsev to five years imprisonment after convicting him of “extremism” for posting videos on social...
Fake: Poroshenko plans to block visa free entry of Ukrainians to Russia
Russian website Ukraina.ru wrote that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced his intention to introduce new travel documents which would end visa-free entry into Russia...