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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.

Groundhog Day of Evil

By EUvsDisinfo In Putin’s Russia, the calendar turns, but the story remains unchanged. A cycle of deception, oppression, moral decay, and futile military adventurism with...

Bad Santa comes with deceitful gifts

By EU vs Disinfo The Kremlin’s master Putin is the bad Santa of disinformation. Every year, he returns to give a huge baskets of gifts...

Everybody else to blame

By EU vs Disinfo Amid all the ongoing wars and crises in the world, last Thursday, 14 December 2023 will go down as a good...

The Next in Line

By EU vs Disinfo The Kremlin liar-in-chief announces his regime will continue and his stooges find US biolabs wherever they look. At a staged event, Putin mumbled out...

The Belarus KGB’s ill-conceived creativity

By EU vs Disinfo Surprising speaker from the KGB On 18 November 2023, a seminar titled, ‘Secure Belarus: the forms and methods of public safety’, gathered...

Wartime Tarot Readings in Russia

By Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security Information and psychological operations have been actively used by the Russians since the very beginning of the...

Decoding FIMI targeting LGBTIQ+ people

By EUvsDisinfo Russia’s Supreme Court recently upheld a claim by the Ministry of Justice, branding the “international LGBT public movement” “extremist,” and banning its activities...

Crocodile tears, deflection, and projection

By EU vs Disinfo The Kremlin’s disinformation pundits seek the spotlight to recycle old narratives about the West threatening global security and stability in a...

Elections in Poland through the prism of Lukashenka regime’s propaganda

By EUvsDisinfo Lately, state propaganda apparatus in Belarus has been making more active efforts to reach Polish audiences. “As of now, everything that is happening...

The deep winter freeze that wasn’t

By EU vs Disinfo Kremlin narratives and hard realities rarely meet. In one of many examples, pro-Kremlin and Russian state-controlled disinformation outlets have ceaselessly declared...