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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.

Russian Newspapers Are Now Warning Readers About Russian TV Networks

When people think of Russia’s independent media, their minds don’t often turn to Yakutsk, the capital of the Sakha Republic, located 450 kilometers (about...

Crimean Prosecutor Warns Tatar Journalist Over ‘Extremist’ Views

A prominent Tatar journalist says she was warned by Crimean prosecutors over "extremist" views for writing about the plight of Tatar children whose parents...

Russia 2030: A story of great power dreams and small victorious wars

Download: PDF The future of Europe’s relations with Russia looks bleak. The Kremlin is pursuing an increasingly aggressive foreign policy to assert itself as a...

Russian Officials Make Plans for an Autonomous, State-Controlled Internet

Russian officials at the Communications Ministry are preparing the groundwork for a Russian Internet that would be fully controlled by the state. A new...

Kremlin Watch Monitor. May 23, 2016

Weekly update on Kremlin disinformation efforts in Europe Three senior editors at the Russian RBC media group controlled by Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov announced...

Russian propaganda: Children of Donbass in a fishbowl

Unrecognized DPR and LPR usually known as Eastern Ukraine territories are filled by Russian propaganda garbage nowadays. Kremlin regime created an awful creature of...

Top Russian pundit confesses to using falsified Nazi document as part of investigative report

Dmitry Kiselyov, one of Russia's most prominent television pundits and the head of the news agency Rossiya Segodnya, acknowledged that his TV program used...

Putin’s hydra: Inside Russia’s intelligence services

Download: PDF Far from being an all-powerful “spookocracy” that controls the Kremlin, Russia’s intelligence services are internally divided, distracted by bureaucratic turf wars, and often...

No Canaries in the Coal Mine: The Demise of RBC

Authoritarian regimes have seemingly learned how not to stifle freedom of speech completely, using censorship or administrative strictures to send signals about the acceptability or...

Russian Court Sentences Internet User to Two Years Behind Bars for VKontakte Reposts

A court in Tver region, Russia, has sentenced Andrey Bubeyev, a local social media user, to two years and three months in prison on...