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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.

False as water

By EU vs Disinfo After India and Mexico, Russia is the country with the largest number of people living outside its borders: 10.6 million, according...

The Pro-Kremlin Masquerade in Berlin

By EU vs Disinfo Berliner Tageszeitung – not to be confused with Berliner Zeitung or Tageszeitung (taz) – is a German-language online outlet which pretends...

#EUelections2019: Kremlin-Friendly Voices in Latvia

By Ianis Bucholtz and Solvita Denisa-Liepniece, for Disinfo Portal In Latvia, the Kremlin benefits from politicians whose public stances on both domestic and foreign policy...

Inosmi: Kremlin stealing news to shape the views

By EU vs Disinfo Inosmi.ru is the Russian state media holding Rossiya Segodnya’s service for translating media content to Russian. It’s part of the same...

Russia’s active measures strategy in Italy

By By Sergio Germani and Massimiliano Di Pasquale, for Disinfo Portal Around 2012, the Kremlin shifted to an increasingly confrontational stance toward the West and...

Disinformation and censorship: Two sides of the same coin in Russia

By EU vs Disinfo A scandal has hit Russia’s media environment following last week’s public exposure of censorship at one of the country’s leading privately...

Figure of the Week: 500

Be EU vs Disinfo Avaaz, a global non-profit organisation and activist network, investigated Facebook accounts active in six biggest EU member states: France, Germany, Italy,...

How big is the Kremlin’s obsession with Ukraine? Spoiler: very big

By EU vs Disinfo It is old news that Russian state-controlled media outlets have little focus on Russia and that they are almost obsessed with...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: The UK leads the fight against disinformation in Eastern Europe

Topics of the Week The UK has launched a £10m programme that helps a network of Eastern European groups combat Russian and Russia-supported far-right disinformation. Pompeo and Lavrov fail to...

Fabricated news claims Poroshenko engineering 3rd round of voting

By Polygraph Vladimir Kovalenko Elise Journal Author “Poroshenko is preparing for a 3rd round of presidential elections in Ukraine.” Source: Elise Journal, May 15, 2019 False The inauguration...