Russian roulette
Despite decades of intellectual isolation, the Soviet Union produced some fine science. When it imploded, only a wave of foreign aid and philanthropy protected...
Russian Mom Faces Years In Prison For Sharing Posts On Ukraine
In Yekaterina Vologzheninova's opinion, the only things she might be guilty of are her daughter's messy bedroom and unwashed dishes.
Authorities in Russia, however, believe...
TV Witch Hunt Drives Human Rights Activist Out of Russia
A human rights activist from a small town in the Urals has fled to Paris seeking asylum after a documentary on state TV channel...
Publishers Slammed by Ukrainian Diplomats, Media for Showing Crimea as Part of Russia
Two renowned publishing houses have found themselves at the heart of a media storm for featuring maps showing the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea...
Nuland Wrongly Accused of Pressuring Ukrainian Government after Prosecutor General’s Comments
On October 20, the English-language, Russian news agency Sputnik published an article alleging that U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland had attempted to...
European Far Right Soldiers of Russian Propaganda
A briefing by Anton Shekhovtsov for the Legatum Institute. You can read the full text here.
INTRODUCTION
More than twenty years ago, a convicted German neo-Nazi...
Fake: Merkel Says No Investment Coming to Ukraine
On October 19, the separatist news website Russkaya Vesna falsely reported that German Chancellor Angela Merkel had sharply criticized the Ukrainian government and predicted...
Fake: Ukrainian TV Forbidden from Showing Handshake between Putin and Poroshenko
On October 18, posting on Facebook, the former creative producer for the 112 Ukraine television network falsely claimed that Ukrainian television channels hadn’t shown...
StopFakeNews #56 with Michael Getto
This week Michael Getto, a business and electoral consultant, is the StopFake News guest anchor again. Russia Today turned some of its attention to...
Why Russia’s Alternate History of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Matters
On Tuesday, the Dutch Safety Board issued its long-awaited report on what brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine on July 17,...