In Russia’s version of the war, Russians are liberators, Ukrainians are Nazis, and the West is full of mendacious hypocrites. To turn on Russian TV news is to enter a parallel universe, one where even the word war is forbidden. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government has now blocked or restricted […]

Have you been watching the war in Ukraine via TikTok? Supposedly, everyone has been. “This is the first war that will be covered on TikTok by super-empowered individuals armed only with smartphones,” the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote in February. That same week, all kinds of publications started […]

Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. Illustrated | Getty Images, iStock If there’s some good news coming out of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s misbegotten war on Ukraine, it might be this: China’s alliance with Russia appears to be mostly lip service. That wasn’t a sure bet. Just days before the invasion […]

Eight years ago, Olga Yurkova and her colleagues founded StopFake, a fact-checking organization based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Since then, they have confronted the Russian propaganda machine head on, giving readers a fact-based alternative to the lies of Vladimir Putin’s regime. Even now, despite the brutal Russian attack on her country, […]