Thursday, September 18, 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.

A Disinformation Story From Serbia: A Mother Fined For Refusing To Dress Her Son...

By EU vs Disinfo In the Serbian information environment, a Twitter account circulated the story of a Serbian mother living in Germany who was allegedly...

Firing Missiles While Talking Peace

By EU vs Disinfo Pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets openly call for revenge and retaliation in the aftermath of the Crimean Bridge explosion, urging Russia to commit...

No, Russia’s airstrike escalation is not retaliation for the Crimean Bridge

By Razom Advocacy Team, for UkraineAlert Russia fired more than 80 missiles and launched at least 24 kamikaze drones at civilian targets across Ukraine on...

No Way Back

By EU vs Disinfo Putin’s illegal annexations announcement speech took us on a mind-bending ride into an alternative reality and his followers off the cliff...

Nord Stream 1 & 2 Sabotage – Disinformation A La MH-17?

By EUvsDisinfo The gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea which together make up Nord Stream 1 and 2 have recently suffered sabotage. Deliberate explosions discovered on 26...

What’s wrong with Elon Musk’s tweet on Ukraine

By Alya Shandra, for Euromaidan Press Elon Musk thinks he found an easy solution to Russia’s war against Ukraine: for Ukraine to, essentially, surrender. Here...

The Dangerous Case Of Nuclear Corners

By EU vs Disinfo The past ten days have been very busy for Russian disinformation outlets and their amplifiers throughout the pro-Kremlin disinformation ecosystem. On...

Burning Bridges, Breaking Contracts

By EU vs Disinfo Following Putin’s toxic and disinformation-laden speech last week, the main topics that have been reverberating through the pro-Kremlin disinformation ecosystem are ‘partial mobilisation’...

Back To The USSR? Russian TV On Referendums And Mobilisation

By EU vs Disinfo Watching Russian state TV is increasingly like entering a parallel world. The more tense the topics become – the referendums, military...

Pro-Kremlin Wikipedia alternative off to a rough start

By Eto Buziashvili and Andy Carvin, for @DFRLAb Member-only pages, restrictive content policies, and a lack of transparency: Runiversalis is a wiki in name only Runiversalis (руни.рф),...