Tuesday, July 8, 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.

Defectors, Defiance And Disinformation

By EU vs Disinfo A journalist of Russia’s largest TV channel performed an anti-war protest during a live broadcast. Several journalists have publicly declared they...

News Channel RT’s UK Licence Revoked By Ofcom – BBC

By IMI Russian state-backed news channel RT has had its licence to broadcast in the UK revoked "with immediate effect" by media regulator Ofcom, as BBC...

Kremlin Watch Briefing: Kremlin accuses West of being racially selective

Policy & Research The outcomes of isolationNo escalation to NATO-Russia war U.S. Developments Russian airstrike escalates offensive in western UkraineTargeting Putin’s pockets Kremlin’s Current Narrative Kremlin accuses West of...

High On Its Own Supply

By EU vs Disinfo With day 22 of Putin’s three-day war not yielding the results the Kremlin hoped for, the Kremlin’s propaganda apparatus has now...

Minsk Coercion: Pro-Russian Social Media Accounts Pressure Ukraine to Implement the Minsk Protocols

By Vitalii Rybak, for UkraineWorld The latest Kremlin’s disinformation campaign on Facebook, Telegram and Twitter portray Ukraine as an aggressor state. On February 7, during his...

“No, We Did Not Bomb The Hospital, And It Was A Nest Of Nazis...

By EU vs Disinfo The shelling of Maternity Ward No. 3 in Mariupol is a war crime and took the life of innocent civilians, including...

In the Russian invasion of Ukraine, fake fact-checks are being used to spread disinformation

By Craig Silverman And Jeff Kao, Propublica, for NiemanLab Researchers at Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub and ProPublica identified more than a dozen videos that purport...

Kremlin Says One Thing, Does Another to Complicate Iran Talks

By Nisan Ahmado, for Polygraph Mikhail UlyanovRussian nuclear ambassador"Russia has always been a driving force, not an obstacle in the course of the negotiations."Source:...

Kremlin Evokes Satan In Support Of The War

By EU vs Disinfo Putin justifying the attack on Ukraine as a battle against “Nazis and drug addicts” was apparently not enough. Pro-violence outlets in...

The Chilling Background To Kremlin’s “No War” Trope

By EU vs Disinfo Russian authorities have forbidden media outlets to refer to the attack on Ukraine as a war. This is not only an...