Saturday, December 6, 2025

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.

The Engineering of Desensitization

Joseph Stalin, whose spirit the Kremlin is reviving today with eerie precision, is said to have remarked, “The death of one person is a...

Cryptocurrencies, a pro-Kremlin oligarch, and Moldovan elections

How is A7, a company owned by Moldovan oligarch Ilan Șor, helping the Kremlin regime circumvent sanctions, and how does this relate to the...

Russian cultural tele-energy therapy for the West

More than three years after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and more than eleven years into the war that Putin's Russia has waged not...

For the Kremlin, Elections Are Golden Opportunities for interference

By EUvsDisinfo On 4 and 5 October, Czech voters went to the polls to elect a new parliament. And the Kremlin once again saw an...

The row over Polish citizenship – how the Confederation lies and incites hatred against...

Since the end of August 2025, when President Karol Nawrocki vetoed the government's amendment to the Act on Assistance to Ukrainian Citizens and at...

The strategy of discomfort

Over western Ukraine, including directly over Lviv, successive waves of Russian strike drones and missiles are flying in, once again exposing the asymmetry in...

Russian ‘Fact-Checking’ Network: EU-Sanctioned Brazilians Among Its Members

By Maiquel Rosauro, for Lupa Read the Portuguese version of this feature. Two Brazilian journalists—one linked to organizations sanctioned by the European Union and the other a collaborator...

Russia Uses a ‘Fact-Checker Network’ to Try to Legitimize Elections in Venezuela

By Maiquel Rosauro, for Lupa Read the Portuguese version of this feature. The first part of the report: The “truth war”: how Russia created its own ‘fact-checking’ network “In...

From Social Media to Weapon Factories: How Russia Traps African Women in War Production

By EUvsDisinfo What looks like a dream job abroad is, in reality, a conveyor belt into Moscow’s war machine. Influencers generally promote beauty products, holiday destinations,...

The “truth war”: how Russia built its own ‘fact-checking’ network

By Maiquel Rosauro, for Lupa Who controls the narrative controls power. Working from that logic, in November 2024 the Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN)—an association that publicly...