Fantasies and Fakes of Russian Propaganda: from Infected Rooks to Satanists

April 01, 2022

Mykhailo Pashkov, Co-director of the Razumkov Centre’s Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes, talks about the Kremlin-made phantasmagoric world of “parallel Ukraine”.


One of the first legendary fakes about the “crucified boy” was launched at the beginning of the Russian aggression [back in 2014]. At that time, Russian federal liars were caught in a lie. Since then, the Russian media — literally an army of mercenary fake makers, clinical experts and deceitful “graduates” of sock puppet farms — have created a phantasmagorical world of “parallel Ukraine”, where power was seized by hardcore Banderites, Nazis and drug addicts.

Mykhaylo Honchar

Visting Research Fellow for Energy Studies


Born in 1963 in Ukraine

Education:

Kyiv Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers (1986) (currently National Aviation University)

Catholic University of Leuven, Training Course for Civil Servants, European Commission Programme (1997)

Career:

1994–1996 — Researcher at the National Institute for Strategic Studies, National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

1997–2002 — Visiting Advisor, National Institute for International Security Problems,  National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

1996–2000 — Advisor to the Secretary of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

2001–2006 — Advisor, Head of the Strategy Department, Head of Apparatus of Special Commissioner of Ukraine on Euro-Asian Oil Transport Corridor, Deputy Executive Director of JSC “Ukrtransnafta”

Since 2006 - Director of Energy Programmes at “NOMOS” Centre, Member of the Editorial Board of “Black Sea Security” Journal

2008 – ongoing  — President of the Centre for Global Studies «Strategy ХХІ» (Kyiv)

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