In czarist Russia, a Russian governor named Potemkin built a fake village to deceive Catherine the Great about the condition of the peasants she ruled. In today’s Washington, the media are ...

Starting in June 2015, he traveled to Russia, Sweden, Germany, France, England, the United States, and China to search for “fake towns” or, as he refers to them, “Potemkin Villages,” which ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin insists that at least the southern part of Ukraine is “Novorossiya” — territory conquered by Potemkin, annexed by Catherine II and rightfully part of his ...

Now, a week after we learned that the “friendship tree” the French president gave Trump has died, we discover that the Israeli prime minister has given Trump a Potemkin village? This was a ...

In Russia, Potemkin’s name is most commonly associated with “Potemkin villages,” a term used to define cover-up facades designed specifically to hide an unsightly truth and create a false ...