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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.

Moscow lLashes out at Lithuanian criminal convictions of Soviet officers

By Polygraph Alexander Guschin Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities Statement “Lithuania was not independent, it was not recognized by the...

Does NATO ‘Pull’ сountries In?

By Polygraph Maria Zakharova Russian Foreign Ministry Spokespersons "Can NATO bring anyone closer? History does not know any such examples. What I can see is that NATO...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: How Russia attempts to recruit informers in Estonia

NEW PUBLICATION Let us announce the publication of a new Kremlin Watch Report called “Operation Dragoon Ride 2015: Disinformation and Counter-disinformation Strategies”, authored by our former...

Building blocks of disinformation: Case of Notre Dame

By EU vs Disinfo It took almost two hundred years, from 1163-1345, to complete the construction of Notre Dame Cathedral on a small island in...

The referendum on North Macedonia’s name was legal

By Margarita Assenova, for Polygraph Sergey Lavrov Russia’s foreign minister “When Montenegro and Macedonia were out of the blue dragged into NATO, the situation with Macedonia’s name...

NATO Special: Global dictatorship and unleashing all the wars of the last 25 years

By EU vs Disinfo As NATO turned 70 last week, pro-Kremlin media obviously felt obliged to draw their audience’s attention to NATO’s atrocities and expansive...

The EU’s Camps in Ukraine: A case of proactive disinformation

By EU vs Disinfo “Guantanamo Near Donetsk: Ukraine has been building a concentration camp for the separatists.”  In April 2015, this message headlined a story published by Zvezda, the official...

Russian News Monitor: April 1-7, 2019

By Ukrainian Election Task Force This is a regular weekly report by Detector Media, a partner of the Ukrainian Election Task Force, offering exclusive content...

On British TV, Russian ambassador repeats debunked poisoning narrative

By Polygraph Alexander Yakovenko Russian ambassador to the UK “That’s the story of the British press and also the government, but unfortunately it’s not supported by the...

Does Julian Assange face death penalty in the U.S. as Russians claim?

By Polygraph Margarita Simonyan Managing editor of RT and Rossiya Segodnya “Kindly Ecuador, which today surrendered Assange to the police, demanded that the British not extradite him...