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.

A pre-history of post-truth, East and West

By Marci Shore, Eurozine Postmodernism was conceived largely by the Left as a safeguard against totalizing ideologies. Yet today, it has been appropriated on...

New Hopes and Challenges: How Ukrainian Public Opinion Has Changed Since 2014

By Hromadske International Since 2014, Ukraine has lived through the most difficult period in its 26 years of independence. Ukrainians have experienced revolution, political transformation,...

Russian journalist Kurbatova to be deported from Ukraine – SBU

By Ukrinform Russia's Channel One journalist Anna Kurbatova will be deported to Russia, Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) spokesperson Olena Hitlianska has reported on Facebook. "Russian propagandist...

Kremlin, Nationalists Face Off Over Romanov Romance ‘Mathilda’

Moscow’s conservative friends become its foes in campaign to defend Tsar Nicholas II’s memory The trailer for “Mathilda,” a fictionalized retelling of the romance between...

Russian Disinformation: Everywhere? Nowhere? Neither?

In America, debate over the reach of Moscow propaganda heats up and scrambles political alliances By Steven Yoder, for Codastory Russia is a character in most...

Surge in fake news now being spread by mirror sites imitating the Guardian, al-Jazeera...

By Codastory A collection of fake news websites imitating al-Jazeera, the Atlantic, the Belgian newspaper Le Soir and others have recently cropped up online, according...

Kremlin scare tactics in Latvia

By Mārtiņš Kaprāns, for CEPA At the beginning of August, Russian state-owned TV channels Perviy Kanal (PK) and NTV reported extensively on the idea of...

Russian news outlets fined for sharing profane rap battle video

By The Moscow Times Russia’s media watchdog Roskomonadzor announced on Monday it was bringing fines against six news outlets for sharing a video of an...

Fake Guardian Article On ‘Collapsing Russia’ Plan Finds Receptive Audience…On Russian State TV

By Carl Schreck, for RFE/RL A fake article attributing explosive claims about Russia to the former chief of British intelligence was quickly debunked last week...

Kremlin Watch Monitor. August 23, 2017

Weekly Update on the Kremlin Disinformation Efforts The Obama administration was warned about the Kremlin’s subversive activities in 2014. In light of these revelations, the fact...