Wednesday, September 17, 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.

Preparing Minds for the War: How Russian Propagandists Sowed the Seeds of and Justified...

Russia has been using various narratives that justify aggression against Ukraine. By Anastasiia Herasymchuk, for UkraineWorld These narratives all exist in the information space simultaneously, but...

Shifting The Focus, Engineering Paranoia, Manufacturing Fake Threats

By EU vs Disinfo While much of the world watched with horror and condemnation as reports came in about Russian missile attacks on Dnipro and other Ukrainian cities during 15-16 January,...

Russian So-Called ‘Peace Proposals’ Are Empty Pr Stunts

By EU vs Disinfo Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 and is using a poor euphemism for the war, calling...

Putin Aide Falsely Claims Russia is Fighting NATO, Not Ukraine

By William Echols, for Polygraph Nikolay PatrushevSecretary of the Security Council of Russia "The events in Ukraine aren’t a clash between Moscow and Kyiv. It’s a...

How China funds foreign influence campaigns

By DFRLab CCP financial statements reveal details of influence operations, from news programming to documentaries to feature films A review of financial records for Chinese Communist...

The “Christmas Ceasefire:” how Russian Propagandists Reacted to Their Own President’s Proposal

By Andriy Avramenko, for UkraineWorld After massive missile and drone strikes on December 25 and New Year's Eve, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a unilateral ceasefire for...

New Year, Old Tricks

By EU vs Disinfo While the rest of us greeted 2023 and moved on with our lives, the pro-Kremlin disinformation ecosystem seems to be stuck...

The Crystal Ball Of Wishful Thinking

By EU vs Disinfo Around the globe, during the last days of the year, people customarily spend some time reflecting and trying to divine what...

Undertones in Russia: War, Propaganda, the West

By Civic Media Observatory, for Global Voices This story is part of Undertones, Global Voices’ Civic Media Observatory‘s newsletter. Russian researchers reflect on their country’s media...

Finland And Sweden Keep Marching On

By EU vs Disinfo Despite the Kremlin continuing its attempts to obstruct Finnish and Swedish NATO accession and intimidate decision makers and citizenry of those...