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March 29, 2016 - 22:50 News

Russian Site Publishes Fake Ukrainian Finance Minister Letter

On March 26 the Russian site Ridus published what it claimed was a letter from Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko to US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland. In the letter Jaresko asks Nuland to help postpone the Dutch referendum on the EU Association Agreement with Ukraine which is planned for April 6. Among the Russian websites that reprinted this story were Novostnoy Front, Narodnyi…

January 17, 2016 - 21:04 News

Fake: Nuland Warned Surkov of “an Inevitable NATO Attack”

Russia’s largest “news” machine RT, or Russia Today as it was formerly known, published an article claiming that Victoria Nuland warned Russians about an inevitable attack by NATO. The source for this outrageous claim is once again the mysterious Tunisian mathematician calling himself Hannibal Genseric writing on the French citizen journalism aggregator site AgoraVox. Genseric writes that Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland demanded…

April 22, 2015 - 13:56 News

Member of Polish Parliament Lies about Maidan Snipers

Several Russian media came out with headlines, such as “Snipers on Maidan Were Trained in Poland for American Money.” This sensational news was based on an interview with Polish presidential candidate and member of parliament, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, in the newspaper Wiadomosci, during which he made two false statements. The politician’s quote is translated correctly, though he is making up the facts: “In the European Parliament I was sitting near Urmas…

April 20, 2015 - 19:49 News

Odesa Summer Camp Refutes Story about Victoria Nuland Fight

Following a falsified lead, Russian television channel Zvezda and other Russian media incorrectly reported that Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs for the United States Department of State Victoria Nuland had bullied Ukrainian children while being a group leader at the Moloda Hvardiya summer camp in 1982. Because of this, she was beaten by the Russian writer Inna Metelskaya-Sheremetieva, who had written about the incident on her…