StopFake #221 with Tim White
Fake: US preparing to overthrow the Hungarian government. Americans plan to fight for the Kerch Strait. Britain wants to bring pro-Russian president to power in Ukraine.
Tag "Ukraine"
StopFake #219 with Marko Suprun
Fake: No evidence of Russian involvement in MH17 crash. Italian journalist missing in Donbas. Food prices rise 500% under Poroshenko presidency.
Fake: Complaints against Ukraine to the European Court of Human Rights Rising
Ukraine is one of the top three countries against whom increasingly more complaints are lodged in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), RIA Novosti and Ukraina.ru announced last month. Citing Court President Guido Raimondi’s press conference summing up last year’s activity, the publications claim that in 2018 the number of complaints about Ukraine violating the European Convention on Human Rights has increased. Both RIA Novosti and Ukraina.ru cite…
Fake: Food Prices Rise 500% under Poroshenko Presidency
Several Russian and Ukrainian publications disseminated fakes this week claiming that under the presidency of Petro Poroshenko, food prices have risen by 500 percent. Ukraina.ru, Gazeta.ru, Rambler, Znay.ua, Tiviy Portal all featured stories based on a Facebook post by the director of the Ukrainian Association of Retail Suppliers Oleksiy Doroshenko. Doroshenko cites price increases provided by Ukraine’s State Statistical Service, an organization that monitors prices and other economic indicators. His…
StopFake #218 with Marko Suprun
Fake: Ukrainian company refuses to fight in Donbas war. OSCE records Ukrainian military provocations. Kyiv to close nuclear power plants because of enriched uranium shortage.
Fake: No Evidence of Russian Involvement in MH17 Crash
Russian propagandist media are once again circulating new fakes on the theme of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 which was shot down over Russian separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine in July 2014, killing all passengers and crew on board. This time, Russia’s Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Vinnichenko told the pro-Kremlin news service RIA Novosti that “no evidence of Russian involvement in the MH17 tragedy has been provided”. The usual suspects – Ukraina.ru, Lenta.ru,…
StopFake #217 with Marko Suprun
Fake: Ukrainian presidential elections will be illegitimate. Ukraine may lose EU visa-free status. Ukraine is fast becoming most indebted country.
Fake: Ukraine to Punish Speakers who Refuse to Use Ukrainian
Legislation on the use of the Ukrainian language and resolutions or programs aimed at strengthening the use of Ukrainian are fertile fodder for the Russian propaganda machine. After centuries of state enforced Russification and official policy, during Czarist and Communist rule aimed at imposing Russian as the main language in Ukraine, the country is attempting to strengthen the position of Ukrainian as the state language through legislation. Each such attempt…
StopFake #216 with Marko Suprun
Fake: Ukraine refuses Christmas truce and prisoner exchange in Donbas. Ukraine does not have enough gas for the winter. Distortion: OSCE Secretary General calls creation of new Orthodox church in Ukraine a provocation.
United Ukrainian Church causes the Kremlin a headache
By Ukrainian Election Task Force Attempts to influence and interfere in elections can happen in a number of ways such as denigrating or promoting particular candidates or using the hottest topics that have the potential to polarize debate in order to destabilize the situation in a targeted country. Perhaps one of the most significant yet underappreciated topics surrounding this sort of election influence is the struggle of the Ukrainian Church…
