He explained that a network of “local collaborators” had actively participated in the attempts to provoke an uprising, although he did not elaborate on their identity. These attempts allegedly failed due to what Shpakouski describes as...
Fact 1. Strikes and protests against Soviet authorities in Donetsk Oblast An active anti-Soviet underground flourished in the Donbas. For example, the regional KGB was constantly on the look-out “for anti-Soviet elements and...
Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow will not recognize the Donbas “republics” because to do so would be “to lose all the rest of Ukraine and leave it to the Nazis,” a clear indication from “Putin’s...
In Soviet times, Moscow sent out a single ideological message to the world; now, the Kremlin sends carefully targeted messages to different groups, an eclectic approach that makes it vastly more effective than its Soviet predecessor,...
Belittling Ukraine’s navy Last Sunday two of Russia’s most viewed TV channels told their audiences that the three Ukrainian vessels, which had been captured by the Russian side in the naval clash in the Azov Sea, represented one-third...
More than a year ago, Russian media started publishing claims of “Ukraine deepening the seabed for a NATO fleet at the Azov Sea.” In fact, no evidence to any such “NATO fleet” can be found. During the last summer...
At publishing time, the online database of EU vs Disinfo contains 4,564 disinformation cases. The agency has been collecting and debunking the fake news and propaganda stories since 2015. Most of the items in the database are...
Vladimir Putin’s agitprop now offers two different versions of the war against Ukraine, one “for the unconditionally dense and a second for the nominally intelligent.” The first is delivered to the mass Russian television audience;...
“A lie is halfway around the world before the truth has even got its boots on,” said Mark Twain. Or perhaps it was Winston Churchill? As the New York Times points out, this quote has been attributed to many different authors. However,...
A child-trafficking ring run from a pizza-parlor basement by the US Presidential candidate and her team – who would believe this stuff? In the midst of the US Presidential campaign in 2016, quite a few people did. And some even...
The three-month campaign leading up to the spring presidential elections officially started on 31 December 2018. According to current polls, no single candidate stands out. Among leading candidates, however, most can be classified as...
