Saturday, May 18, 2024

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.

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Russian Defense Ministry’s Latest #MH17 Denial — ‘a Lie, Pure and Simple’

By Polygraph Russian Defense Ministry “Not a single anti-aircraft missile system of the armed forces has ever crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border.” Source: TASS, June 27, 2018 FALSE Russian ownership...

Russia falsely denies hunger striker, Oleh Sentsov, a prison visit by Ukraine

By Polygraph Tatiana Moskalkova Russian Commissioner for Human Rights “I received an official response from the leadership of the FSIN (Russia’s correctional service) that since she (Denisova)...

#PackOfLies: Lies about Ukraine in Putin’s speech

During the annual live broadcast “Direct Line“ which airs on all the biggest Russian TV channels, Russian president Vladimir Putin was asked what advice...

Make Russia look successful – at any cost

By EU vs Disinfo The Americans finally acknowledged that Russian fighter jets are superior to American fighter jets! And why complain about the Russian government hiking...

Dehumanizing disinformation as a weapon of the information war

By EU vs Disinfo Dehumanization is a quite common trait in conflict situations, where the opponents usually intend to build support for their own actions...

Figure of the Week: 6.4%

By EU vs Disinfo This week, Russian state media more than tripled the defence budget of Latvia, a NATO member and neighbour of Russia. The bogus...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: Nord Stream II is a strategic mistake

Topics of the Week In a public appeal published by the European Values Think-Tank, 50 security experts from 18 European countries outline the reasons why Nord...

CONIFA alternative World Cup boosts Russia-backed separatism

By Sarah Hurst (@XSovietNews), for StopFake In the World Football Cup that you probably haven’t heard of, which took place in London earlier this month,...

Propaganda war against Ukraine’s aspirations to gain Tomos on autocephaly

By Oleksandr Sagan , theologist, for Lb.ua Among the external factors opposing the receipt by the Orthodox Ukrainians of Tomos from the Patriarch of Constantinople,...