Monday, July 7, 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.

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...

Democracy as an act of defiance

By EU vs Disinfo The people of the European Union has voted. The second largest democracy in the world, after India, and the results of...

Russia’s influence arcenal: Watch out, this is what China is learning from Russia 

By Edward Lucas, for CEPA Last week’s column looked at six political warfare tactics common to Russia and China, and three that are used (so...

New U.S. Sanctions Bill against Nord Stream 2 not a trade war on Europe

By Polygraph Dmitry Lekukh Political commentator “Actually, these are already not restrictions at all: this is a direct and unequivocal declaration of economic war against the entire...

Trolling European Elections 2014 – 2019

By EU vs Disinfo Kremlin attempts at election meddling in Europe started as far back as 2014, research by Cardiff University’s Crime and Security Research...