Fake: “The Witches’ Sabbath” in Kyiv Supported by Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense
On April 28, Russia-24’s program Vesti aired a report entitled “At Walpurgis Night 2,000 Witches Will Carry out a Ritual in the Center of...
Russia to slap crippling fines on media for ‘propaganda of extremism’
Vladimir Putin has signed a law increasing fines on the media for what the authorities choose to view as ‘propaganda of extremism’. In Russian-occupied...
Russia 24 Presents Odesa Participant Who Is Accused of Murder as Hero
On April 29, the Russia 24 network broadcast Arkady Mamontov’s movie devoted to the tragic events in Odesa on May 2, 2014. Eduard Hayrapetyan...
Fake: Poroshenko Makes Bandera Flag Symbol of Victory Day
On April 30, Russia media (the Russian Ministry of Defence television channel Zvezda, Ren-TV, Russian Channel 5, Pravda.ru) falsely reported that Ukrainian President Petro...
Fake: The Launch of a Ukrainian Version of Charlie Hebdo
The Russian media recently spread false reports about the first issue of a Ukrainian version of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Ria Novosti...
RT America Boss Out on Supervised Release Following Tax Fraud Conviction
The former boss of the Kremlin’s Washington-based media empire has been sentenced to a year of supervised release for his 2013 tax fraud conviction,...
Russia’s pro-Putin media darling loves his new life in Brooklyn — minus the hipsters
His father is a multi-millionaire media mogul who has called Vladimir Putin the "father of the nation." At 24, he founded LifeNews, a news...
America’s Adversaries Use Baltimore Unrest to Spread Anti-US Message
Across the world, this week’s unrest in Baltimore after the death of a young African American following being taken into police custody is being...
Fake: Ukrainians to Abandon Orthodoxy
Several Russian media have falsely reported that a Ukrainian church is going to abandon Orthodoxy and fall in with the Greek Catholic Church.
On April...
Russian media is loving the Baltimore riots
As the world watched TV screens and Twitter streams showing Baltimore in chaos, Russia's propaganda machine got to work exploiting the unrest with what...