Wednesday, April 30, 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.

Proposed Changes Would Subject Foreign Media to Russia’s Extremism Law

The public council of Russia's Communications Ministry is to review a proposal that would make foreign media working in the country subject to the federal anti-extremism law, Vedomosti reported Friday. Under...

Journalists call for Signing the Petition for Revoking International Prize of World Summit Award...

Statement We, representatives of the Ukrainian and international media community, are appalled by the decision of the World Summit Award Mobile jury to award Russian TV...

Russia Update: Government Further Restricts Internet Freedom

The restriction of Internet freedom has increased this year, with violence used against some bloggers, say the Association Of Internet Users. Association of Internet...

Sputnik Goes Live in Portuguese

Multimedia News Agency has announced the launch of its Portuguese edition. The news website accessible at http://br.sputniknews.com will provide the world’s Portuguese-speaking community with diverse perspectives...

How Russian TV uses psychology over Ukraine

Russian state TV's coverage of the conflict in Ukraine does not simply contain one-sided and often misleading propaganda. It also appears to employ techniques...

Tickling Twitter’s Funnybone: Putin Can Destroy NATO With What?

Call it the headline that launched a thousand tweets. For the February 1 broadcast of his program Vesti Nedeli, the bombastic television presenter Dmitry Kiselyov used the...

Fake ‘Ukrainian’ News Websites Run by Russian ‘Troll Army’ Offshoots

Russia has engaged in a blitzkrieg of information warfare since the start of the Euromaidan protests, increasing the budget of RT (formerly Russia Today)...

Pro-Moscow Groups Launch Websites for ‘Peoples Republics’ in Latvia and Lithuania

Pro-Moscow groups have launched websites for a so-called Latgale Peoples Republic in southeastern Latvia and a so-called Vilnius Peoples Republic around the capital of...

Russia Update: Court Upholds Definition of Soldiers’ Mothers of St. Petersburg as ‘Foreign Agent’

A court rejected the attempt by the Soldiers’ Mothers of St. Petersburg to remove the designation of “foreign agent,” despite the fact that the...

Germany Faces Tricky Quest Countering Russian Propaganda

Germany is launching a new international news service to counter Russia’s aggressive propaganda push in Europe. The only problem: Employees of Deutsche Welle, the...