Tuesday, September 16, 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.

Halya Coynash: Odesa smoking gun leads directly to Moscow

A new film has exposed direct links between Moscow and the disturbances in Odesa from late February to the tragic events of 2 May...

The Kremlin’s Voice: Johan Bäckman

The Kremlin’s Voice, is a new UpNorth series profiling some of the most outspoken cheerleaders and spokesmen for the Putin regime around the world:...

How Fake Stories Reported in Russia’s News Media Regularly Fool Everyone

This story was originally written in Russian and published on the website Noodleremover.news. The English translation below was written by RuNet Echo's Kevin Rothrock. Just...
Levada

Russia moves to silence Levada Centre after damning public opinion polls

The Russian Justice Ministry has added the Levada Centre to its list of ‘foreign agents’, placing the internationally respected public opinion pollster’s very existence...

Kremlin Watch Monitor. September 5, 2016

European Values Think-Tank has just published a new analysis: "Mechanisms of Influence of the Russian Federation into Internal Affairs of the Czech Republic”. You can...

Halya Coynash: Pro-Kremlin media lies as international pressure mounts to free Umerov

International protest over Russia’s prosecution and punitive psychiatry against Crimean Tatar leader Ilmi Umerov has not gone unnoticed in Moscow.  The demands for his...

US Hate Group Forging Ties with the “Third Rome”

Matthew Heimbach is a burly, bearded 25-year-old propagator of hate. In late June, members of a fringe group he leads, the self-proclaimed Traditionalist Worker Party,...

Russia reinstates Soviet jamming to silence criticism of its occupation of Crimea

Russia’s censor has blocked the Ukraine Crisis Media Centre over a press conference given by the world-renowned Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemiliev and others. ...

In Putin’s Russia, The Neo-Stalinist Tipping Point

Putin’s appointment of a Stalin-apologist ideologue as education minister is, for many intellectuals, the last straw, Anna Nemtsova wrote for The Daily Beast. For the...

Russia’s War in Ukraine: The Medals and Treacherous Numbers

The full report can be downloaded here  The war in eastern Ukraine is known under multiple names; most often formulations similar to Ukrainian civil war...