Igor Yakovenko

The Union of Russian Journalists (URJ) has suggested licensing for video bloggers. In the view of this organization, this is necessary for combating fake news.“One of the main problems now is fake news. If we do not combat this, such a huge wave will sweep over the world in a few years...

The obvious things include the very fact of the killing, its timing and location. Also, numerous witnesses have corroborated the purpose of the crew’s trip to the Central African Republic (CAR), it being making an investigative film dealing with the activities of Wagner’s private...

“The Russians never betray their own people,” “It is our people in Donetsk and Luhansk, and we are not indifferent about what is happening to them” – Russia has been occupying a part of the Ukrainian territory and waging an aggressive war against Ukraine for...

“We should take advantage of a ceasefire violation. Once they break the ceasefire, we must launch an offensive. The Donbas troops, supported by our air force, long-range missile systems, such as the Iskander, and cruise missiles, will go on an offensive. It is in fact a Syrian option. When...

May 2017 will see a three-year anniversary of the project “Two Countries, One Profession.” It is a series of meetings between representatives of Ukraine’s and Russia’s journalist organizations under the aegis of OSCE. There have been nine roundtables at which leaders of the...

The first thing the Bolsheviks did, after seizing power in Russia, was the building of an information concentration camp. Lenin’s decree outlawing the freedom of the press was the first step in the direction of establishing a rigid totalitarian system of censorship. It was adopted even before...

This year marks a period of plummeting economy for Russia, along with the shattering fiasco of Project Novorossia [New Russia], the apparent cul-de-sac in the war against Ukraine, and a series of corruption scandals on a mind-boggling scope. Vladimir Putin and his inner circle are unable to...

Since Americans elected Donald Trump as their new president, political life has grown more active in Russia. Firstly, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev proposed to rename Caffe Americano to Russiano. Secondly, President Vladimir Putin issued an asymmetric response to Prosecutor of the International...

From now on, November 9 may well be marked in Russia as a major official red letter day, on a par with May 9, the Soviet “Day of victory over fascist Germany during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.” At least, this is how Russia’s media are responding to Donald Trump...

“It is not the final truth” was the leitmotif of the rather incoherent answers of Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov to Stephen Sackur in the BBC’s HARDtalk program.On September 28, 2016, the international Joint Investigation Team (JIT) submitted a second report on what...