Sunday, July 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.

Putin’s Final Chapter: How War Became Russia’s National Curriculum

By EUvsDisinfo Many historians agree that school history textbooks shouldn’t cover current events – some historical distance is usually necessary to make sense of an...

Russia’s Military History: Never in the Wrong

By EUvsDisinfo The Kremlin’s information manipulation and influence operations are not always immediately devious. Sometimes Moscow takes a ‘softer touch’. In our previous articles we...

African Initiative: Russian FIMI Operation Disguised as a News Agency

By EUvsDisinfo The Kremlin has steadily expanded its foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) operations globally. We have tracked their footprint across the EU neighbourhood,...

An Unpleasant Incident

By EUvsDisinfo The Kremlin downplays Ukraine’s devastating attack on Russian military airfields, looking for distractions and feebly recycling old lies about terrorism and Anglo-Saxons instead. This...

Polish Elections in the Eyes of Moscow

By EUvsDisinfo The Polish Presidential elections showed how the Kremlin spin machine works. In a haze of hyperbolic accusations and false claims, one element stood...

The French did it? The Kremlin Playbook Strikes Again

By EUvsDisinfo Last week saw a new, yet familiar narrative circulate aimed at discrediting the democratic elections in Romania and stirring mistrust of European institutions....

Georgia’s Foreign Agents Law: Protecting Sovereignty or Attacking Civil Society?

By EUvsDisinfo Georgia’s authorities have started a disinformation campaign ahead of the application of a new Foreign Agents law. As of 1 June, a new law...

Celebrating a New War

By EUvsDisinfo Well into the fourth year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Moscow’s real ambitions are well-known: to control, conquer and subdue all, or...

Are Europeans Kidnapping Children in Africa?

By EUvsDisinfo On 25 October 2007, the Chadian government intercepted an attempt by the French charity organisation L’Arche de Zoé to fly 103 Chadian children to France under false...

What He Said and What it Really Means – Vol. 9: Putin rewriting history...

By EUvsDisinfo As expected, the Kremlin pulled out all the stops on 9 May to use the commemoration of the end of the Second World War eighty...