Friday, September 19, 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 Foreign Ministry Says Austrian Officer Was Baselessly Accused of Spying for Moscow, But...

By Polygraph Sergei Lavrov Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs “The Russian side stressed the unacceptability of the practice of making public unsubstantiated accusations, which runs counter to...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: What steps should the West take to stop Russian subversion efforts?

NEW PUBLICATION akub Janda, director of the European Values Think-Tank, has published a new article recommending immediate steps the West should take to thwart Russia’s hostile influence...

Russian Defense Ministry evades accusations of ‘unsafe’ flyby

By Polygraph Russian Ministry of Defense "On November 5, 2018, at about 10am on-duty airspace control aircraft spotted an unidentified air threat over the neutral waters...

Disinformation and the Dirty Work

By EU vs Disinfo What is worse? To spread lies or to prevent others from telling the truth? The organisation controlled by the Russian businessman...

McFaul post election tweet triggers RT attack in ‘US News’ feed

By Polygraph RT “Another familiar voice declaring a triumph over the Russian president in the midterms is William Browder, a US-born British investor shark, who reimagined...

“Funeral teams for NATO soldiers” – a week of disinformation scare-mongering, exaggeration and mockery

By EU vs Disinfo When NATO’s large Trident Juncture 2018 exercise concluded this week, pro-Kremlin disinformation was unsurprisingly swift to react. Two weeks ago we highlighted three different...

Russia’s Foreign Minister: US election and politics ‘directly affect’ bilateral relations – avoiding the...

By Polygraph Sergey Lavrov Foreign Minister, Russia “I will not guess how the results of these elections will affect the future of our relations… We firmly know...

#PutinAtWar: Disinformation targets Trident Juncture

By Donara Barojan, for DFRLAb NATO’s largest exercise becomes the target of Kremlin’s 4Ds of disinformation A regular military exercise conducted by NATO this month has...

RIA, writing and geography

By EU vs Disinfo Russian state propaganda media would benefit from updating their skills in political geography. This became apparent last week when two leading...

Russian Embassy distorts story about anti-vaccine disinformation

By Polygraph Russian UK Embassy Twitter account Official social media account “In a strange twist of logic the author tells us Russia is against vaccination, which is...