Scottish sheriff slams Russia’s fake justice system
By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake
Russian state witnesses used ad hominem attacks and whataboutism - standard tactics by Vladimir Putin’s regime – in a...
What Putin says about rights and freedoms in Russia vs. the facts
By Polygraph
Vladimir Putin
President of the Russian Federation
“Our mass media is free. People are free to speak out and make a name for themselves as...
Kremlin Watch Briefing: DisinfoPortal.org and Belt and Road Tracker launched, East Stratcom still needed
Topics of the Week
New projects to follow: Atlantic Council’s DisinfoPortal.org and MERICS’s Belt and Road Tracker.
Lithuanian MEP Laima Andrikiene: We still need East Stratcom against...
Russian journalist forced to resign for criticizing pro-Putin propaganda on Instagram
By Global Voices
On May 24, 2018, reporter Alexandra Terikova was forced to resign for posting an Instagram video of kindergarten students singing a song for Russian...
Austrian TV confronts Putin with the issue of disinformation
By EU vs Disinfo
Ahead of Vladimir Putin’s visit to Vienna on 5 June – his first trip to the EU after he was re-elected...
Fake: Hungary To Shoot down Ukrainian Airline
Russian media reported last week that Hungary sent fighter jets in pursuit of a Ukrainian aircraft that had violated the country’s airspace. Ukraina.ru, Russia’s...
Zika rumors got three times more shares than real Zika stories. What can health...
By Laura Hazard Owen, for NiemanLab
The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to...
Putin says Russia has not left the G-7 – not true
By Polygraph
Vladimir Putin
President, Russia
“We did not leave it , our colleagues refused to come to Russia due to known reasons at some point. Please,...
Disinfo analysis: Macedonia – to be or not to be… Russia’s satellite
By Polygraph
The small Balkan nation of Macedonia is increasingly a destination for the Kremlin’s political strategists, the ideologists of Russian exceptionalism and Moscow’s Orthodox mission in...
#PackOfLies: Inconvenient facts in Babchenko case
When it was announced that the Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko was murdered in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on Tuesday, it did not take long for...