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.

Russian Embassy in Canada Uses Butina Case to Attack #MeToo and Feminism

By Polygraph Russian Embassy in Canada A screen shot of the Russian Embassy in Canada's Twitter account. “#FreeMariaButina is a showcase that exposes all bias & hypocrisy...

United Ukrainian Church causes the Kremlin a headache

By Ukrainian Election Task Force Attempts to influence and interfere in elections can happen in a number of ways such as denigrating or promoting particular...

Kremlin: U.S. must ‘babysit’ Poroshenko after funding Ukrainian revolution

By Polygraph Dmitry Peskov Russian presidential spokesman "Too much money was invested into Ukraine, too much money was poured into the coup in Ukraine, and justifying this...

Kremlin Ignores Evidence in Calling US Meddling Reports ‘Unfounded’

By Polygraph Dmitry Peskov Russian Presidential Press Secretary "…unfounded claims... The Russian state and the Russian government have nothing to do with any meddling…” Source: TASS, December 18,...

Russian sources blame Coalition for destroying hospital in Syria, even before it was damaged

By Polygraph Sputnik News Russian state-owned media outlet “The Friday airstrikes of the US-led Coalition have completely destroyed a hospital in the Syrian city of Hajin in...

Annual news conference: Despite the evidence, Putin calls Skripal poisoning a pretext to attack...

By Polygraph Vladimir Putin Russian President “Sirkpal, thank God, is alive. Nevertheless, there are a bunch of sanctions against Russia …This is a politicized Russophobic approach. It...

Putin on Butina: Our poor innocent girl, who none of us know

By Polygraph Vladimir Putin President, Russia "This poor girl is in jail, our Butina, she is facing 15 years imprisonment, for what? When I heard that something...

You got it all wrong: Russia is innocent, always blame the West

By EU vs Disinfo According to pro-Kremlin outlets, this week the Americans should be proud of successfully organising the ‘yellow vest’ protests in France and autocéphale in Ukraine. Yet Kremlin-linked media also...

Kremlin Watch Briefing Special Edition: The winners and losers of 2018

With the holidays fast approaching, we decided to do something special for the last Kremlin Watch Briefing of the year. This week, we summarize...

Russian State TV broadcasts staged interview

By EU vs Disinfo As Ukraine marks the anniversary of the 2013 Maidan revolution, a young Ukrainian man tells his story to Russian state TV...