Wednesday, November 5, 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.

Bild: Putin’s shadow government for Donbass exposed

BILD has obtained a document containing the true plans by Russia for the occupied territory of the Donbass. The records of the "Inter-ministerial Commission for...

Latvia Blocks Russian Sputnik Site As Kremlin ‘Propaganda Tool’

Latvian authorities shut down Russia's pro-Kremlin news site Sputnik on March 29, calling it a "propaganda tool" and drawing an immediate rebuke from Moscow. Latvia's...

Moscow Police Banned From Discussing Work Matters on Social Media

Police officers in the Russian capital are now officially banned from exchanging work-related information on social networks and messaging apps. Law enforcement officials insist...

Russian Censors Target Public Wi-Fi Spots in Crusade Against Blocked Websites

Russian censors have begun policing public wireless Internet in cafes, shopping malls and public libraries, in what they say is an effort to ensure...

Center for Monitoring Propaganda and Disinformation Online Set to Open in Russia

In December 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the Internet Economy Forum, where he suggested Russian federal security service and other state...

Getting The News From Chechnya – The Crackdown On Free Press You May Have...

When a minivan with eight Russian and European journalists and human rights activists was attacked on March 9 by a band of professional thugs...

The new propaganda wars

Even though the Berlin Wall was destroyed more than a quarter-century ago and the city rebuilt, new propaganda wars are being waged here and...

Russian Media Outlets Falsely Accuse Belarusian Brothers of Brussels Attack

On March 14, eight days before the terrorist attacks in Brussels, the Russian media outlet Lifenews reported (archive) that two Belarusian brothers, Ivan and Aleksey Dovbash,...

Yahoo Reports First Content Removal Requests from the Russian Government

Yahoo, the American multinational Internet and technology company, has released its latest transparency report, listing the numbers of government requests for user data or...

Russia’s information warfare – airbrushing reality

Authors:  Ben Nimmo is a senior fellow at the Institute for Statecraft in London specialising in Russian information warfare and influence. He formerly worked as...