Saturday, November 29, 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.

Signal & Noise

Kremlin influence operations and propaganda noise, Nikolai Holmov wrote for Intersection. Recently Ukraine has witness a well-advertised and long planned "peace march" taking part across...

Kremlin Watch Monitor: August 23, 2016

Weekly update on Kremlin disinformation efforts in Europe "Ukrainian saboteurs" While the military activity on the Crimea-Ukraine border is escalating, the Russian Federation accused Ukraine of...

Plucky Russian Newspaper Stands By Warning Against ‘Distorted’ TV News

Running an independent newspaper can be a risky business in Russia, where failure to toe the Kremlin line can lead to fines, closure, or...

25 myths and facts about Ukraine and Ukrainians

Many foreigners, having told their friends they’re moving to Kyiv for a job or posting, are asked: “Kyiv? That’s in Russia, isn’t it?” As a...

Kremlin Watch Monitor. August 15, 2016

The Atlantic Council published our analysis of how Russian domestic propaganda portrays Western leaders. Together with the Semantic Visions we analyzed over fifty-nine million articles published in the...

It’s time to fact-check all the news

Political reporters are showing that fact-checking isn’t just for fact-checkers, Bill Adair wrote for Poynter. After Donald Trump declared repeatedly last week that President Obama...

How Russian Propaganda Portrays European Leaders

Russia’s efforts to spread disinformation in other countries as part of a hybrid war against the West sometimes make us forget that the media...

Milosevic ‘Exonerated’? War-Crime Deniers Feed Receptive Audience

Strange mid-summer news: A U.K.-based pundit, in an op-ed piece in RT, sensationally claims that the late Slobodan Milosevic has been "exonerated" by the...

Russian and Ukrainian versions of the Crimea “sabotage plot”

The fallout from Russia’s accusations of Ukraine planning a sabotage mission in occupied Crimea that the Kremlin’s security forces had allegedly foiled is far...

DIICOT head: Sky News feature report on arms trafficking in Romania was staged

The Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) prosecutors are conducting searches in seven locations in Targu Mures and Bistrita Nasaud in the...