Saturday, February 21, 2026

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.

“Hang Them From The Lamp Posts”

By EU vs Disinfo The “One Nation Myth” and Kremlin Imperial Revanchism on Ukraine Pyotr Tolstoy, Deputy Speaker of Russia’s Parliament and head of the Russian...

MH17: Timeline Of Pro-Kremlin Disinformation Narratives

By EU vs Disinfo This week marks the seventh year anniversary of a tragic event. On July 17 2014, flight MH17, carrying 298 people, was...

Hot Air On Sea Breeze

By EU vs Disinfo Summer steam While summer is upon us, accompanied by scorching heatwaves in several parts of the globe, including in Russia, pro-Kremlin outlets continue...

MH17: Seven Years Of Lying And Denying

By EU vs Disinfo For seven years, the Russian authorities have attempted to hide their connections to the murder of 298 civilians aboard Flight MH17...

Fake: Majority of Ukrainians are against the Army and Zelensky’s Donbas War

The results of a recent poll show that more than 70% of Ukrainians consider there is a war between Ukraine and Russia and only...

Europe Needs Graduate Programs on Information War, Rebane Says

By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia Given the impact of Russia’s information wars against countries like Estonia and Belarus, Raul Rebane says, it is most...

Storytelling And Disinformation – An EUvsDisinfo Classic

By EUvsDisinfo Once upon a Time, in a kingdom far, far away, a dragon was keeping the entire population hostage, poisoning it with its toxic...

Kremlin Not Getting The Joke

By EU vs Disinfo Honest Mistakes or Deliberate Disinformation? Satire and humour have an obvious place in democratic discourse. The Russian satirical website Panorama has since...

Anglo-Saxons Provoke The Waves: Pro-Kremlin Media Vent About HMS Defender And EU Decisions

By EU vs Disinfo This has been a busy time for the Kremlin’s spin-doctors. Russian state-controlled TV channels continued to vent and spin disinformation messages...

Disinformation Fuels Hate On Belarusian TV

By EU vs Disinfo “Rats”, “degenerates”, “human abominations” – these are just a few ways in which Belarusian state-controlled TV describes opposition activists. As the...