Most people in the West make two fatal mistakes about Moscow ‘media,’ Yakovenko says
Most people in the West continue to make two “fatal” mistakes about the media in Putin’s Russia, Igor…
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To the making of Russian fake news, there is no end
December is a month when news outlets routinely compile lists of the best or worst events of the…
Moscow, not Kyiv, behind ethnocide of ethnic Russians in Ukraine, Yakovenko says
The Russian Duma has declared that Kyiv’s decision to make Ukrainian the language of instruction in Ukrainian schools…
Flight MH17 three years on: getting the truth out of Eastern Ukraine
Very detailed evidence Now, almost three years after, very detailed evidence has been gathered about the event. The…
“Poisoning” by headlines: how Russian disinformation keeps spreading
Several Russian-language outlets reported that visitors of the “Green Day” festival in the Ukrainian city of Oleshky (Kherson…
Putin regime now ‘one grandiose fake’ from top to bottom, Eidman says
Vladimir Putin’s use of a video showing American planes to impress Oliver Stone of the power of Russian…
Nazi east, Nazi west, Nazi over the cuckoo’s nest
Regular readers of the Disinformation Review already know that the accusation of Nazism is one of the favourite…
Moscow deploys the most dangerous kind of disinformation against Ukraine
Lies are one thing; disinformation quite another, as the late Nathalie Grant warned decades ago. The first can…
Increased violence in Donbas coincides with spike in anti-Ukrainian aggressive rhetoric on Russian TV
We have reported several times in the past that the increased violence in Donbas is usually preceded and…
Moscow’s disinformation operation far beyond mere lying and obfuscation
Most Western discussions about countering Russian disinformation have focused exclusively on unmasking the ever-growing number of lies and…
“DNR’s” propaganda apparatus exposed. Part 2: How “DNR” censored Ukraine’s leading TV channels
An email dump of a “DNR Ministry of information” employee, Tatyana Egorova, reveals that Ukrainian leading TV channels collaborated with the…
“DNR’s” propaganda apparatus exposed. Part 1: “Russophobe, get him out of Donetsk”
An email dump of a "DNR Ministry of information" employee reveals how the self-proclaimed Russian-backed statelet in eastern…
Moscow’s propaganda about Ukrainian anti-Semitism — response to Ukrainian resistance, Ackerman says
“No one denies that on the territory of present-day Ukraine terrible pogroms took place at the time of…
Putin admits Russian media ‘cooking’ the news, Zaidman says
Last Friday, Vladimir Putin not only made an amazing admission of what he and his regime have been…
Kyiv must counter Moscow disinformation about sanctions impact on Europeans, Inozemtsev says
As the Dutch referendum results show, many Europeans are now want to focus on their own problems rather…
The Russian organizers of a “Third Maidan” in Ukraine
The idea for this article arose when I accidentally came across one of the Facebook accounts under the…
Moscow disinformation escalating from mass media to Russian academic output
When most people think about Russian disinformation now, they think almost exclusively about stories directed to a mass…
Moscow propaganda works by confusing fact and fiction, Pomerantsev says
Peter Pomerantsev, the Kyiv-born author of “Nothing is True and Everything is Possible,” says that Moscow propaganda works…
Kremlin’s Top Five Propaganda Myths, Fakes and Stupidities about Ukraine this week
This week’s list of the Kremlin’s Top Five Propaganda Myths, Fakes and Stupidities about Ukraine this week as…
The Top Five Russian Lies about Ukraine this week – And growing challenges for those interested in the truth
As he has done each week in recent times, Dmitry Bukovsky of Kyiv’s “Delovaya stolitsa” provides a useful…