Section: Global Voices (The Netherlands)
Outing the Russian Military in Eastern Ukraine
Images mixed by Tetyana Lokot. This is the second in a series of posts where RuNet Echo talks to the people behind several fact-checking projects in eastern Ukraine. Read the first post here. From its onset almost a year ago, the conflict in eastern Ukraine has been surrounded by controversy and a full-scale information war waged both in the...
Google Art Project Now Features Ukrainian Street Art
Street art by Ukrainian collective Dobrye Ludi. Image from respublicafest.com. Ukrainian graffiti and street art, previously visible mostly to Ukrainians and tourists walking the streets of Ukrainian cities, is now available to Internet users across the globe. Google Art Project, an extensive online collection of works of art of different genres...
Ukrainian Journalist Detained, Questioned by Russian Security Services in Crimea
Young woman looks at photos at a flashmob for the anniversary of annexation of Crimea by Russia in downtown Kyiv, on February 28, 2015. Photo by Oleg Petrasiuk from Demotix. Natalya Kokorina, an editor of the Simferopol-based independent journalist initiative Center for Investigative Journalism, was detained by officers of the Crimean...
Russian Imperialism’s Internet Triumph
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Mapping Geolocated Tweets About Putin and Poroshenko
Images mixed by Tetyana Lokot. This article is part of a citizen-media data-analysis project, a collaboration between RuNet Echo and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Explore the complete article series on the All the Presidents’ Tweets page. Our targeted Twitter data sample of over six million tweets contains tweets...
Fact Checking the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine
Image by Bart van de Biezen on Flickr. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. This is the first in a series of posts where RuNet Echo talks to the people behind several fact-checking projects in eastern Ukraine. Amid the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine, an information war between Russia and Ukraine has raged online and in the media. Much of the information warfare...
Remembering Ukraine’s ‘Heavenly Hundred’
Kiev, Ukraine. 20th February 2015 — A Ukrainian carries a torn national flag at a mourning ceremony in memory of the heroes of “Heavenly Hundred”. February 20 during anti-government protests on Independence Square about 100 activists were killed. — One year after over 100 people were killed at Independence Square aka Maidan Square in Kiev...
‘Ministry of Truth’ Recruits Ukrainians for ‘Internet Army’
Images mixed by Tetyana Lokot. Ukrainian Ministry of Information Policy is ramping up its attempts to win the information war with Russia. Their newest idea? Launching a website to recruit Ukrainian social media users for a government-run “Internet army.” Minister Yuri Stets had already hinted in January that an “Internet force” of influential...
Here Is What You Can Do in Kyiv if You Have One Dollar
Image from You have one dollar, what’s next? on Facebook. The economic woes in Ukraine have been hitting the local currency, hryvnya, hard. The most recent dive brought the currency to 33 against the US dollar (in December 2014 it was 16 UAH to 1 USD). But enterprising Ukrainian social media users have tried to find the bright side—by...
Meet Russia’s New Activists, the Anti-Maidan Movement
“Anti-maidanovtsy, anti-maidanovtsy everywhere.” Images edited by Kevin Rothrock. The latest thing to sweep Moscow’s culture of street demonstrations is a coalition of war veterans, patriotic politicians, nationalist bikers, and mixed martial artists. They call themselves the Anti-Maidan movement. The group’s name signifies its...
