Saturday, July 5, 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.

No Evidence for Putin claim that ‘scumbag’ Skripal sanctified in West

By Polygraph Valdimir Putin President of Russia Some media outlets are “pushing through a theory that Mr. Skripal is some sort of a rights activist. He’s plainly...

Russia’s double media standards

By EU vs Disinfo “Russophobic sentiment in the media is being ratcheted up in France under the pretext of countering disinformation”.  This statement was delivered by...

Figure of the Week: 10

By EU vs Disinfo The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has seen a coordinated disinformation campaign targeting its referendum on changing the name of...

Don’t feed the Kremlin’s trolls!

By Corina Rebegea, for CEPA Old tropes about American hegemony, Western neo-colonialism, and hypocrisy appear constantly on Kremlin-friendly outlets in Romania (such as Sputnik and...

RT top manager plagiarised his dissertation

By EU vs Disinfo The news director of RT America, Mikhail Solodovnikov, plagiarised substantial parts of the Ph.D. dissertation he defended in 2011. This was the...

Russian Church spokesman falsely compares Ukrainian Church to Nazis

By Polygraph Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) Bishop of Russian Orthodox Church and Head of the Department of External Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church “The Ukrainian authorities want...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: Bellingcat has identified Skripal suspect as GRU agent, the Kremlin continues...

Topics of the Week Ruslan Boshirov, one of the two suspects in the Skripal poisoning, has been identified as a GRU colonel by investigators from Bellingcat. A new...

The Disinformation Maps Aimed at Tearing Our World Apart

By EU vs Disinfo With a quick move, the camera zooms in on the map of Ukraine. One by one, pieces of Ukrainian territory get...

Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga

By Bellingcat Investigation Team Bellingcat and its investigative partner The Insider – Russia have established conclusively the identity of one of the suspects in the poisoning...

Figure of the Week: 20

By EU vs Disinfo Facebook is opening a “War Room” to protect elections from disinformation attempts on the social network. Scheduled to become operative on 24 September, the...