This is a regular weekly report by Detector Media, a partner of the Ukrainian Election Task Force, offering exclusive content covering the three main Russian state TV talk shows, particularly these shows’ coverage of Ukraine and the 2019 presidential election. Kremlin-backed media outlets often generate disinformation narratives that are then spread throughout Ukraine as...
This is the second survey aimed at assessing public opinion about possible outside influences on Ukraine’s 2019 presidential elections. The survey asked participants to say how strong that influence, if any, would be and of what quality: positive or negative. Comparing the two surveys conducted over a period of three months (the first before...
The survey was conducted by the Razumkov Centre’s Sociological Service in cooperation with the Democratic Initiatives Foundation from March 1-6, 2019. The sample consisted of 2,019 respondents aged 18 and over, in all regions of Ukraine except Crimea and occupied areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The sampling error does not exceed 2.3...
Gergely Gulyás, the Minister of the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Office, has accused Ukrainian authorities of trampling minority rights and adopting a “semi-fascist” law. Responding to a question about elections in Ukraine at a press conference in Budapest, Gulyás said that “Ukraine currently has a government that tramples on minority rights, one that...
As Ukraine prepares for its March 31, 2019, election—and gears up to defend that poll from cyberattacks—Kyiv should coordinate its defenses with other countries also preparing for elections of their own. The Republic of Lithuania, the southernmost Baltic country, will hold its own presidential election on May 12, just six weeks after Ukrainians head...
The Kremlin’s disinformation campaign that accompanied its invasion of Ukraine five years ago continues to propagate fake news during the pivotal Ukrainian presidential election cycle today. During Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov’s press-conference on the results of Russian diplomacy in 2018, Lavrov once again repeated some of the most notorious false narratives. “As for...
In the last week, the Kremlin-controlled outlets still focused very much on the incident in the Sea of Azov, as the European Union’s analysis shows. Apart from trying to blame Ukraine for the incident wherein Russian forces in fact attacked Ukrainian ships, the fresh line of the Kremlin’s propaganda accuses Ukraine of preparing an...