PolitiCheck: No forced change of names of Bulgarians in Ukraine as Kostadin Kostadinov claims

Fact Checks, Украйна

The Constitution of Ukraine, adopted in 1996, establishes Ukrainian as the sole official language of the country. Thus, Ukrainian legislation requires the spelling of names in personal documents of each citizen to be according to the rules of the only official language in the country which is Ukrainian. There is no intentional discrimination towards Bulgarians or any other national or linguistic minority in Ukraine.

It is not true that an American scientist has “admitted” the laboratory origin of coronavirus

COVID-19, Fact Checks

The claim that US economist Jeffrey Sachs has admitted to the artificial origin of the coronavirus in the US is false. It is also untrue that he claims it is US military bio-labs that distributed it. The economist expresses the opinion that the hypothesis of the laboratory origin of the virus should be investigated. There is currently no indisputable evidence of the origin of the virus.

No, it’s not a picture of the President of Estonia with her son wearing a dress

Fact Checks, политика

A photo repeatedly shared on Facebook showing “the President of Estonia and her son” wearing a pink dress is fake. A similar photo, with the same people and apparently from the same event was also circulating during that time, gathering hundreds of reactions and negative comments firmly criticizing the liberal propaganda of the West. The image is far from new – it was taken on August 18, 2020. The man in the dress is Mikk Pärnitsa, an Estonian writer, translator and cultural critic. There is no evidence that Mikk Pärnitsa has any family connection to the now ex-president of Estonia.

Disinformation attack in Bulgaria: “There is no Russian aggression in Ukraine” and “Happy freedom from fascism”

Fact Checks

“There is no Russian aggression against Ukraine”; “Ukraine has joined the Russian Federation”; “Happy freedom, Russian brothers and sisters”. Such and other similar misinformation posts and statuses are being spread in hundreds of Bulgarian Facebook groups and dozens of websites, a check by Factcheck.bg showed. The onslaught of messages with false or misleading information, spread…