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January 15, 2020 - 18:22 News

Fake: Armenia Resumes Flights to Crimea

Last week Russian media launched a wave of fake stories claiming that Armenia and the Russian occupying forces of Crimea agreed to resume flights between the annexed Ukrainian peninsula and the Armenian capital Yerevan. Citing Alexei Chernyak, the chairman of the Crimean parliament’s tourism committee Komsomolskaya Pravda claims that Pegas Fly, a Russian airline based in Krasnoyarsk, has received permission to operate seven flights a week on the Simferopol-Yerevan route.…

December 06, 2019 - 12:48 News

Fake: UN Recognized that Crimea is Russian

Russia brought a member of Crimea’s occupying authority to the 12th session of the United Nations Forum on Minority Issues held in Geneva last November and used his presence there to claim the UN recognized that Crimea is Russia. The claim is patently fake, as no such recognition has taken place and is highly unlikely that it ever will, as one of the most recent UN resolution calls for the…

November 02, 2019 - 11:49 News

Fake: Czech President Recognizes Crimea as Part of Russia

A number of Russian and Ukrainian media reported that Czech President Milos Zeman publicly recognized Crimea as part of Russia and had invited pro-Kremlin Crimean Tatars to an official Independence Day event in Prague. Zeman in fact did not make such a statement, although Crimean Tatars from the pro-Kremlin Kyrym Birligi group were present at the October 28 official state commemoration. Several Czech organizations and politicians condemned Zeman inviting the…

October 27, 2019 - 21:09 Context

Desperately seeking recognition

By EU vs Disinfo Crimea is Ukraine. However, the Kremlin and its propaganda machinery will go many extra miles to seek out support of the inaccurate claim that Crimea’s status changed as a result of Russia’s invasion and illegal annexation in 2014. This craving for recognition forces pro-Kremlin media to produce a monotonous and ritualised flow of variations over a well-known theme: someone somewhere said something that confirms Russia’s official…

October 21, 2019 - 12:04 News, Videos

Fakes Make Money: StopFakeNews with Marko Suprun (No. 257)

Fake: Ukrainian diaspora condemns sanctions against Crimea. Fakes are profitable. Skabeyeva lies & Russia bashing Ukraine: https://www.polygraph.info/a/30208310…

October 17, 2019 - 19:50 News

Fake: Ukrainian Diaspora Condemns Sanctions against Crimea

Ukrainians from different countries are calling for the lifting of sanctions against Crimea, several Russian media outlets declared last week. 15 representatives of Ukrainian emigres from various countries announced that unification of the peninsula with Russia must be recognized, Komsomolskaya Pravda claimed. Not one organization representing the Ukrainian diaspora has made such a claim, quite the contrary, Ukrainian emigres speak with one voice about Russia’s illegal occupation of Crimea and…

October 07, 2019 - 11:37 News, Videos

IMF Buys Land in Ukraine: StopFakeNews with Marko Suprun (No. 255)

Fake: Ukrainian land to be sold in exchange for IMF Billions. Relations between Russia and the West deteriorating because of Ukraine. Train service to Crimea to resume.

September 27, 2019 - 23:45 Context

Poklonskaya suggests moving UN HQ to Crimea to end annexation “fairy tale”

By Polygraph Natalya Poklonskaya Member of Russian Parliament “In order to end all speculations and outdated and very annoying fairy tales from overseas about the annexation of Crimea, it would be good to consider the opportunity of relocating the UN headquarters to Crimea, for example to Yalta.” Source: Tass Russian News Agency, September 26, 2019 False The UN does not recognize Crimea as Russian territory On Thursday, September 26, Natalya…

September 02, 2019 - 23:19 Context

Don’t mention Crimea!

By EU vs Disinfo The facts about Crimea’s annexation are now a taboo in Russia and subject to censorship. When the Russian version of Israeli author Yuval Noah Harari’s book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century was published in Moscow earlier this summer, references to the invasion of Crimea and the disinformation campaign around it had to be replaced with examples that were unrelated to Russia and Ukraine. Trump instead of Putin…

August 12, 2019 - 07:52 News, Videos

Russian Military Tourism in Crimea: StopFake with Marko Suprun (No. 247)

Fake: NATO planned to turn Crimea into a military base. Ukraine’s state gas company recognizes Russian annexation of Crimea. Ukraine’s space program future holds only Soviet past.