Russia Changes Its Mind, Asks Twitter to Store Russian User Data Locally
Russia's Internet watchdog Roscomnadzor is demanding that microblogging service Twitter store its Russian users’ personal data on servers inside Russia. The demand is based...
You’re in the Army Now: How Drafted Ukrainian Journalists Cover the War in Their...
Ukrainian journalists drafted into the military to serve in eastern Ukraine have turned their Facebook and Twitter accounts into personal field diaries. In their...
When In Doubt, Blame The West
So Russia went there after all.
The crash of Metrojet Flight 9268 in Egypt on October 31, which killed all 224 people on board, was...
Russia’s Internet Watchdog May Soon Get More Extrajudicial Website Blocking Powers
Roscomnadzor, Russia's state media and Internet watchdog, might soon be able to cease the registration of websites in the .ru and .рф domain zones...
Russophobia in the Kremlin’s strategy. A weapon of mass destruction
Building up an image of Russophobic countries is currently instrumental in shaping a neo-imperial political identity among the citizens of the Russian Federation, mobilising...
Fake: OSCE Confirms Shelling of Donetsk by Ukrainian Army
The Russian television network Zvezda has falsely reported that the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine has confirmed the bombardment of Donetsk’s Kuibyshevskyi district...
Manipulation: Another Obscure Blogger Becomes an “Expert”
Russian and pro-Russian media agencies continue to re-post material written by little-known international bloggers - or even by “international” bloggers who may in fact...
Fake: Korban Admits Guilt in Odesa Fire
On November 7 and 8, Russian and separatist media falsely reported that Ukrainian politician Gennady Korban and his colleague Ihor Kolomoyskyi had claimed responsibility...
StopFakeNews #59 with Zoe Ripecky
This week, Zoe Ripecky, a Fulbright Fellow in Kyiv, guest hosts StopFakeNews. Among this week’s fakes, the U.S. Secretary of State admits “defeat” in...
Confession of a Russian internet provider
A firsthand account of how the internet is monitored, regulated and blocked in the Russian Federation.
The internet is no longer free in Russia —...