Alexey Kovalev calls himself a noodle remover. He has set for himself the ambitious, possibly impossible task of removing the false news (“noodles”) that tends to filter down from the Kremlin into state media. It is a labor of love, supported by his time and that of a handful of volunteers who work as researchers digging up the facts.
Thousands of people read the Russian-language website (noodleremover.news) on average each week.
