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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.

Russia Wants to Force Internet Companies to Cooperate With Its Surveillance System

On June 24 the Russian parliament is expected to vote new anti-terrorism measures designed to tighten the Kremlin's grasp on the Internet. The suggested...

New Google Earth Satellite Update Confirms Presence of Buk in Eastern Ukraine

Today, Google Earth updated its historical satellite imagery to include Donetsk and Makiivka at 11:08am (local time) on July 17, 2014, the day of the...

Kremlin trolls are engaged in massive anti-Ukrainian propaganda in Poland

Warsaw — Kremlin “trolls” have launched a massive campaign to discredit Ukraine and Ukrainians in the Polish Internet space. Polish analysts note that an...

Russia Without BS: Face to Face

I love conversion stories. Perhaps that’s because I’ve had so many myself. I consider it ridiculous that we live in a society that condemns...

Kremlin Watch Monitor ǀ June 20, 2016

After being the only allied president who denies organized Russian military presence in Ukraine, office of the Czech President has given an interview...

Russian state television accidentally broadcasts evidence that Moscow uses cluster bombs in Syria

The state-sponsored television channel RT aired footage of a Russian combat aircraft carrying cluster munitions in Syria at the Khmeimim Air Base. In a...

Russian propaganda claims soldiers who invaded Crimea were “peacekeeping mission”

print version »       (right photo: Reshat Ametov, with two of his three children) A monument to the victims of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars...

Information war monitor for Central Europe: May 2016 Part 1

GLOBSEC Policy Institute’s bi-weekly overview of conventional and social media discourse in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia monitors propaganda and disinformation attempts, as...

False Flags: The Kremlin’s Hidden Cyber Hand

For two years the so-called Cyber Caliphate has been the online weapon brandished by the Islamic State against its enemies. Its hacking offensive, including...

Russia stifles Serbia

The sudden cancellation of Prime Minister Aleksander Vučić’s visits to Brussels and Washington illustrates that Serbia’s new government remains susceptible to Kremlin pressure. Vučić...