Sunday, March 1, 2026

Context

Stories in the Context section are not fakes. We publish them in order to provide greater insight for our readers about the techniques, methods and practices used by the Russian government in its information war. They appear on our site with the permission of their original publisher and reflect the views of the authors and not necessarily the position of StopFake’s editorial board.

Total Recall: How Russia Tried to Erase the Ukrainian Identity

By EUvsDisinfo Imagine a world where your past is not yours – where every event, every hero, every town can be deleted and replaced with...

What the Kremlin Wants You to Believe About Its War Against Ukraine

By EUvsDisinfo Five recurring false narratives the Kremlin uses to justify and distort its war against Ukraine. Russia has carried out online disinformation and FIMI campaigns...

When Defeat Becomes Disinformation

By EUvsDisinfo Throughout 2025, Russian officials were repeatedly shut out of the governing bodies of international organisations – a direct consequence of Kremlin’s unprovoked war...

How to Prove Russia’s Involvement in Information Operations: A Joint Ukrainian-NATO Report

By Centre for Strategic Communication Over the course of the full-scale war, the quality and depth of Ukraine-NATO relations have fundamentally transformed. Today, Ukraine is...

Vladimir Putin Is Trapped in a War He Cannot Win but Dare not End

By Peter Dickinson, for UkraineAlert More than a year since he returned to the White House vowing to end the Russia-Ukraine War within 24 hours,...

As New START Ends, Disinformation About It Continues

By EUvsDisinfo The Kremlin blames others for not extending The New START Treaty. But Moscow played a big role in undermining the Treaty long before...

New Weapon in the Shadows: How the Kremlin Uses Video Games for War Propaganda

By EUvsDisinfo For decades, television was considered the primary mouthpiece of propaganda. The digital age, however, has elevated a new and potentially more dangerous instrument...

The Wikipedia Wars

By EUvsDisinfo As Wikipedia approaches its 25th anniversary in 2026, its open editing model faces a growing challenge: coordinated edit wars. In these campaigns, Kremlin-aligned...

Sailing Under False Flag: Moscow’s ‘Shadow Fleet’ Meets Europe’s Resolve

By EUvsDisinfo Seizures of sanctions-busting oil tankers have triggered a new wave of disinformation from the Kremlin. A recent uptick in manipulative narratives about Russia’s ‘shadow...

FIMI and Disinformation as Global Threats

By EUvsDisinfo A number of recent global risk assessments converged on a clear message: FIMI, disinformation, and misinformation have become a systemic threat for democracies...