Sunday, May 5, 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.

The Kremlin is planning its own version of Stone’s ‘Putin interviews’

By The Moscow Times A Russian film company will produce a feature-length documentary about President Vladimir Putin in the lead up to the March 2018 elections, the television channel Dozhd reported...

Russia leading ‘assault’ on freedom of expression — HRW

By The Moscow Times Russian authorities have clamped down on Internet freedoms and introduced “invasive surveillance” online, under the pretext of fighting extremism, Human Rights...

Dependent media – Russia’s military TV Zvezda

By East Stratcom “The chemical attack in Idlib in Syria on 7 April this year was a piece of “fake news” and a staged operation...

Kremlin TV: Singing from the same hymn sheet

By East Stratcom “The West is the cause of all problems in the world, whereas Russia is invariably the only source of positive hope”. This...

Twelve Myths about Change in Ukraine

By Alexander J. Motyl, for Atlantic Council Most Ukrainians will tell you that “nothing has changed” since the Euromaidan Revolution. Meanwhile, most Ukrainian analysts bemoan...

Russian Justice Ministry bans 19th century book about persecution of Jews in medieval Europe

By Meduza Russia’s Justice Ministry has banned a 19th century book by German Orthodox rabbi Marcus Lehmann about the forced conversion of Jews to Christianity...

Moscow leverages Qatar crisis disinfo to bolster Nord Stream 2

By Wojciech Jakóbik, for CEPA Russian media uses the Qatar crisis to undermine Eastern European energy diversification and defend Gazprom’s controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline...

Kremlin TV: Singing from the same hymn sheet

By East Stratcom “The West is the cause of all problems in the world, whereas Russia is invariably the only source of positive hope”. This...

Flight MH17 three years on: getting the truth out of Eastern Ukraine

By East Stratcom Where were you on 17 July, 2014? On this day a Malaysian Airlines flight, which had taken off from Amsterdam bound for...

MH17 – The Open Source Investigation, Three Years Later

By Bellingcat Investigation Team. for Bellingcat The full report can be downloaded here  Today, we are releasing a report summarizing all major open source evidence surrounding...