In Saint Petersburg, some editorial offices pretend to be Ukrainian online media outlets

In Saint Petersburg, some editorial offices pretend to be Ukrainian online media outlets. This information comes from the media outlet “Snob”, referring to the newspaper "Delovoy Peterburg".

The journalists of the fake media work in the same building with the company "Internet Research", which conducts the propaganda campaign of improving the public image of Moscow mayor, Sergey Sobianin, and work against the rating of opposition leader Aleksey Navalnyi. For example, “News Agency Kharkiv” works from Petersburg, as “DP” claims. At this, the Kharkiv domain of the media outlet was purchased from Kharkiv media outlet by the Russian owner of this “news agency”, company “Nevskie Novosti”.

Web sites novorus.ru, newsdon.info, newslava.info and rus.kg, the publications on which approve of the actions of fighters of Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics”, are also controlled from Russia.