Friday, May 3, 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.

Moscow Disinformation Spreading from Mass Media to Academic Output

When most people think about Russian  disinformation now, they think almost exclusively about stories directed to a mass audience, be it via the print...

Russia accused of clandestine funding of European parties as US conducts major review of...

American intelligence agencies are to conduct a major investigation into how the Kremlin is infiltrating political parties in Europe, it can be revealed, Peter...

Triangulating Sources to Thin the Fog of War

This article is part of a larger guidebook by RuNet Echo to help people learn how to conduct open-source research on the Russian Internet....

Russian Hackers Behind Attack on Ukraine’s Power Grid, Researchers Claim

The alleged cyber-attack that led to a temporary outage of the Ukrainian power grid was likely perpetrared by Russian hackers, according to US researchers. The...

Drowning in a sea of paranoia and propaganda

Today, the perception of Vladimir Putin in Europe is both overblown and distorted, writes Olga Irisova for New Eastern Europe. His most zealous opponents...

Russia propaganda machine gains on U.S.

Russia has reorganized and intensified its international propaganda machine so effectively over the past decade that some Western lawmakers and diplomats say Washington now...

Kazan Arrests Pro-Moscow Critic under Terms of Russia’s Anti-Extremist Law

Rais Suleymanov, a Tatar who has sharply criticized Kazan for supposedly assisting the rise of radical Islam in the Middle Volga and for failing...

Greek news agency ANA-MPA starts editorial cooperation with Sputnik

The ANA-MPA will launch a new international 'news journey' in collaboration with the Russian news agency Sputnik on New Year's Day, with two new...

Russia: Blogger Sentenced to Five Years Imprisonment

In response to a Russian court sentencing blogger Vadim Tyumentsev to five years imprisonment after convicting him of “extremism” for posting videos on social...

Team Fortress 2 poster mistaken for US propaganda on Russian state television

As part of an effort to show how theUnited Statesuses propaganda to influence the mindset of its citizens, a historical documentary recently aired by...