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rrn.world
The English-language version of a pro-Russia website with undisclosed
ownership, often advancing Russian propaganda under the guise of
providing “reliable” news.
7.5 / 100
Proceed with caution: This website severely violates basic journalistic standards.
Does not repeatedly publish false content 22 points
Gathers and presents information responsibly 18
Regularly corrects or clarifies errors 12.5
Handles the difference between news and opinion responsibly 12.5
Avoids deceptive headlines 10
Website discloses ownership and financing 7.5
Clearly labels advertising 7.5
Reveals who's in charge, including any possible conflicts of interest 5
The site provides names of content creators, along with either contact or
biographical information 5
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Ownership and Financing

RRN.world, or Reliable Recent News, does not disclose its ownership, and
NewsGuard was not able to identify an owner or source of financing.
A September 2022 report by Meta, titled “Taking down coordinated inauthentic
behavior from Russia and China,” stated that RRN.world is part of a Russian
disinformation network of “over 60 websites impersonating news organizations,
as well as accounts on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Telegram, Twitter and
other platforms.” Meta said that the network promoted pro-Kremlin
disinformation within Europe, with a focus on Germany, and that the network was
“the largest and most complex Russian operation” that the company, which owns
Facebook, has uncovered since the war in Ukraine began on Feb. 24, 2022.
According to the Meta report, the network “coordinated” publishing the same
articles on the “spoofed” sites of dozens of credible news organizations,
including the UK’s The Guardian, Germany’s Der Spiegel, and Italy’s ANSA news
agency. The report stated that these sites “mimicked the exact layout and
spoofed web addresses” of the news organizations, to trick readers into
believing that they were authentic.
Shortly after the report was published at the end of September, NewsGuard
found that all the sites identified by Meta had been taken down, except for
RRN.world.
Research by the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), an
organization that studies and exposes disinformation, and EUvsDisinfo, a site set
up by the European Union to document Russia's disinformation, found that the
RRN.world domain was created in June 2022. The groups’ also found that
RRN.world previously used the domain “RRussianNews.com,” which was
registered in March 2022 with a Russian phone number and email address.
As of October 2022, RRussiaNews.com redirected to RRN.world, which listed an

IP location in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
RRN.world does not run advertisements, charge for content, or have any other
apparent sources of revenue.
Content
RRN.world states that it provides “reliable information from verified sources.
News and analytics, expert opinions and comments, historical references and
dossiers, exposure of fakes.” The site provides content in English, French,
German, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, and Mandarin Chinese.
RRN often republishes articles from WarOnFakes.com, a site found by
NewsGuard to frequently publish false information about Ukraine while
purporting to debunk false claims about the war.
Much of the site’s coverage has focused on purported war crimes by the
Ukrainian army, the alleged prevalence of Nazi ideology in the Kyiv government,
and the supposed catastrophic effects of the energy crisis in Europe. For
example, a September 2022 article claimed that “After the war began, the
Ukrainian authorities started intimidating and terrorizing the population of
Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions [in Ukraine].”
Another September 2022 article stated: “it is impossible [for Ukraine] to obtain
[NATO] candidate status because of widespread corruption in the country”.
Another story that month stated that as a result of the European energy crisis,
“water, electricity and heating will stop working. Supermarkets won’t be able to
open either, and ATMs will stop disbursing money”.
RRN often publishes video content alongside articles. Videos are typically
taken from the RRN YouTube channel or from outside news programs, including
“Tucker Carlson Tonight,” a Fox News show that NewsGuard found has promoted
false claims about the Ukraine war.
According to the September 2022 report by Meta, RRN.world stories have been
widely promoted on social media by Russian government institutions, including
Russian embassies throughout Europe and Asia.
Credibility
RRN.world frequently advances false and misleading information about
Ukraine and its allies, echoing narratives promoted by the Kremlin.
For example, an April 2022 article headlined “Resurrected 'corpses' in Bucha -
Western media continue to publish fakes about the conflict in Ukraine” advanced
widely debunked claims that the Ukrainian army “staged” footage showing
civilians executed by the Russian military in Bucha, a city near the Ukrainian
capital of Kyiv that was under Russian occupation for much of the month of
March.
The article stated that bodies were “especially dug up by the Ukrainian soldiers
and laid out on the street waiting for press to arrive,” and claimed that “video
evidence” proved that the event was staged. The article shared video footage
that it claimed showed a corpse moving their hand and another corpse sitting
down.
In fact, the video does not show corpses moving. Shayan Sardarizadeh, a BBC
journalist who covers online disinformation, published a slowed-down version of
the video on Twitter, provided by international fact-checking group Aurora Intel.
Sardarizadeh noted that the video, which was reviewed by NewsGuard, showed
that a mark or a raindrop on the screen had created the false impression of
the body moving a hand in low-resolution clips.
The video also does not show a corpse “sitting down,” as the article claims.
According to Sardarizadeh, the “slowed down version shows the buildings in the
background being distorted by a rearview mirror. Add social media compression
and the video gives the impression the body is moving.”
In early April 2022, multiple news organizations, including Reuters, The

Associated Press, and AFP, documented the killing of civilians in Bucha. There is
no evidence that the scenes were staged. An April 4, 2022, review of videos and
satellite imagery conducted by The New York Times showed that many of the
dead civilians lying on the streets of Bucha were killed in mid-March 2022, when
Russia, by its own account, was in control of Bucha. In fact, satellite imagery
studied by The New York Times and the BBC supports the notion that bodies had
been left lying in the street in Bucha for two weeks before Russian forces left the
town.
Another April 2022 RRN.world article, titled “The tragedy in Kramatorsk is
another provocation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” claimed that the Tochka-U
missile “is not in service with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.” This
claim was used as alleged evidence that a missile attack on a railway station in
Kramatorsk on April 8, 2022, was the work of the Ukrainian army.
It is true that Ukraine uses Tochka-U missiles, but so does Russia, according to
experts. Patrick Wilcken, an arms control researcher at Amnesty International,
told NewsGuard in an email interview that “both Ukraine and Russia have the
Tochka.” He added, “We have seen Russia deploying the [Tochka] system in
Ukraine and documented an indiscriminate attack by Russia near a hospital
building in Vuhledar, in Donetsk involving a 9M79 Tochka ballistic missile.”
Moreover, on March 29, 2022, the Belarusky Hayun, an activist group that
monitors military activity in Belarus, posted a video showing a column of the
Russian Armed Forces with Tochka missiles marked with the letter V, moving
north of Kyiv. According to the Ukrainian fact-checking group StopFake, V and Z
are the two Latin script letters used to indicate that equipment belongs to the
Russian army.
An April 2022 RRN.world article titled, “US Experts Start Studying Data on
Ukrainian Biolaboratories,” stated that “the Pentagon was directly involved in the
funding of the biolaboratories engaged in weapons development in Ukraine.”

This claim is based on a misrepresentation of the U.S. Department of Defense’s
Biological Threat Reduction Program, which collaborates with partner countries
to reduce the threat of outbreaks of dangerous infectious diseases by helping
partners to secure dangerous pathogens and to quickly detect outbreaks,
according to the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine’s website. The U.S. has been providing
aid to Ukrainian laboratories since 2005, when the Ukrainian Ministry of Health
and U.S. Department of Defense signed an agreement intended to limit the threat
of bioterrorism by implementing safeguards on deadly pathogens from Soviet-
era biological weapons programs.
The Biological Threat Reduction Program has since helped to construct and
modernize Ukrainian laboratories. The labs themselves are run and primarily
financed by the Ukrainian government. In a May 2020 statement, the Security
Service of Ukraine (SBU) noted in response to claims about the presence of U.S.
military biological laboratories that “no foreign biological laboratories operate in
Ukraine.”
A May 2022 RRN.world article titled “What has the world ignored for all eight
years?” claimed that “For eight years Ukraine has been violating the rights of its
people. Eight years of discrimination against the Russian-speaking population.
Eight years of glorifying Nazism and committing genocide.”
However, the International Criminal Court, the Office of the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights, and the Organization for Security and Co-
operation in Europe have all said that they have found no evidence of genocide in
Donbas, the eastern Ukrainian region partly occupied by Russian-backed
separatists since 2014. The U.S. mission to the Organization for Security and Co-
operation in Europe called the genocide claim a “reprehensible falsehood” in a
Feb. 16, 2022, post on its official Twitter account. It said that the mission “has
complete access to the government-controlled areas of Ukraine and HAS NEVER

reported anything remotely resembling Russia’s claims.”
A 2021 Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights report blamed the
authorities of the separatist Donetsk and Luhansk republics for various abuses,
including severe restrictions on the freedom of movement, forcing people to
adopt Russian citizenship, and arbitrary arrests. At the same time, the UN
reported three cases of arbitrary detainment and ill-treatment carried out by
Ukraine’s SBU (secret service), and 13 such cases in the self-proclaimed
republics, which the UN said were “usually” carried out by the “ministry of state
security” officers, known as MGB.
A 2016 report by the International Criminal Court found that the acts of violence
allegedly committed by the Ukrainian authorities in 2013 and 2014 could
constitute an “attack directed against a civilian population.” However, it also said
that “The information available did not provide a reasonable basis to believe that
the attack was systematic or widespread.”
In addition, the site’s claim that Ukraine has “glorified Nazism” for eight years is
also false. Radical far-right groups do exist in Ukraine and, according to a 2018
Freedom House report, they represent a “threat to the democratic development
of Ukraine.” However, the report also stated that far-right extremists have poor
political representation in Ukraine and no plausible path to power. Indeed, in the
2014 parliamentary elections, the far-right nationalist party Svoboda received 4.7
percent of the vote. In the 2019 presidential election, the Svoboda candidate,
Ruslan Koshulynskyy, won just 1.6 percent of the vote, and in the parliamentary
elections, Svoboda won 2.2 percent of the vote. Svoboda currently holds one
parliamentary seat.
Because RRN.world has frequently advanced false claims about the Ukraine and
its war with Russia, NewsGuard has determined that the site repeatedly
publishes false content, does not gather and present information responsibly,
and it does not avoid the use of deceptive headlines.
Articles on RRN.world are not labeled as news or opinion. However, because, as
shown above, the site’s news coverage consistently advances the agenda of the
Russian government, without disclosing the site’s pro-Russia agenda,
NewsGuard has determined that the site does not handle the difference between
news and opinion responsibly.
RRN.world does not publish a corrections policy, and NewsGuard did not find any
corrections.
NewsGuard attempted to contact RRN.world in October 2022 through a general
contact form on the site, inquiring about the articles cited above and the
website’s approach to corrections and opinion. However, the form displayed an
error message when NewsGuard submitted its inquiries, and NewsGuard was
unable to find another way to contact the site.
Transparency
RRN.world does not disclose its ownership or name any editorial leaders and
content creators.
As noted above, NewsGuard’s attempts to reach the site via its contact form
yielded an error message.
The site does not run advertising.
History
RRN.world was launched in June 2022. As noted above, the site previously used
the domain “RRussianNews.com,” which was registered in March 2022, shortly
after Russia invaded Ukraine.
The site maintained a Twitter page until the end of August 2022, when it was
suspended by the platform. It maintains a channel on Telegram, titled
“RRN.world,” and a YouTube channel, called “Reliable Recent News,” which were
created in August 2022.
Written by: Eva Maitland
Edited by: Madeline Roache, Eric Effron, Richard Sambrook
Sources
Ownership and Financing
https://whois.domaintools.com/RRN.World
https://carbondate.cs.odu.edu/#RRussianews.com
https://medium.com/dfrlab/russia-based-facebook-operation-targeted-europe-
with-anti-ukraine-messaging-389e32324d4b
https://www.disinfo.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Doppelganger-1.pdf
https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/CIB-Report_-China-
Russia_Sept-2022-1-1.pdf
RRussianews.com
https://waronfakes.com/lies-about-bucha/the-situation-in-bucha-what-
actually-happened/
Content
https://RRN.World/back-home/
https://RRN.World/blackout-a-survival-guide/
https://RRN.World/ukraine-will-not-join-eu-because-of-corruption-and-nazism/
https://waronfakes.com/lies-about-bucha/the-situation-in-bucha-what-
actually-happened/
https://RRN.World/the-situation-in-bucha-what-actually-happened/
https://waronfakes.com/mo-rf/fake-russian-army-launched-an-airstrike-on-a-
maternity-hospital-in-mariupol/
https://RRN.World/fake-russian-military-in-ukraine-are-raping-women-and-
teenagers-en-masse/
https://waronfakes.com/mo-rf/fake-russia-may-use-chemical-weapons-in-
ukraine/
https://rrn.world/fake-russia-may-use-chemical-weapons-in-ukraine/
https://RRN.World/video-did-you-think-about-the-consequences/
Credibility
https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/CIB-Report_-China-
Russia_Sept-2022-1-1.pdf
https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/pro-kremlin-network-
impersonates-legitimate-websites-and-floods-social-media-with-lies/
https://RRN.World/the-tragedy-in-kramatorsk-is-another-provocation-of-the-
armed-forces-of-ukraine/
https://RRN.World/the-situation-in-bucha-what-actually-happened/
https://RRN.World/strong-resurrected-corpses-in-bucha-western-media-
continue-to-publish-fakes-about-the-conflict-in-ukraine-strong/
https://t.me/mod_russia_en/643
https://t.me/MFARussia/12230
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/world/europe/bucha-ukraine-bodies.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20220403191846/https://twitter.com/Shayan86/stat
us/1510698253964222464
https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-atrocities-in-bucha-not-staged/a-61366129
https://t.me/Hajun_BY/3353
https://www.stopfake.org/en/fake-serial-number-confirms-kramatorsk-train-
station-hit-by-ukrainian-tochka-u-missile/
https://ua.usembassy.gov/embassy/kyiv/sections-offices/defense-threat-
reduction-office/biological-threat-reduction-program/
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/05-829-Ukraine-
Weapons.pdf
https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/sbu-no-us-biological-laboratories-
in-ukraine.html
https://RRN.World/us-experts-start-studying-data-on-ukrainian-
biolaboratories/
https://rrn.world/what-has-the-world-ignored-for-all-eight-years/
https://twitter.com/usosce/status/1493962541772509192
https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/UA/29thReportUkraine_EN.pdf
https://www.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/otp/161114-otp-rep-PE_ENG.pdf
https://rrn.world/ukraine-will-not-join-eu-because-of-corruption-and-nazism/
https://rrn.world/ukrainian-nazis-fired-at-a-car-with-children-in-mariupol/
Transparency
https://RRN.World/feedback/
History
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHJDuHOOyBn3qhPS6Yx9xtw/videos
https://vk.com/video/@russiannewson
https://twitter.com/RRNworld
https://web.archive.org/web/20220823024047/https://twitter.com/RRNworld
https://t.me/s/reliablerecentnews
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Does not repeatedly publish false content 22 points

Gathers and presents information responsibly 18

Regularly corrects or clarifies errors 12.5

Handles the difference between news and opinion responsibly 12.5

Avoids deceptive headlines 10

Website discloses ownership and financing 7.5

Clearly labels advertising 7.5

Reveals who's in charge, including any possible conflicts of interest 5

Ownership and Financing

As of October 2022, RRussiaNews.com redirected to RRN.world, which listed an

In early April 2022, multiple news organizations, including Reuters, The

funding of the biolaboratories engaged in weapons development in Ukraine.”

complete access to the government-controlled areas of Ukraine and HAS NEVER

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