Wednesday, December 31, 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.

Matryoshka’s Moldovan Manipulation

By EUvsDisinfo In recent days, the Kremlin-backed Matryoshka disinformation network has launched a new blitz aimed squarely at Moldova’s President Maia Sandu, just ahead of the upcoming EU-Moldova...

Cynicism and Russian propaganda

According to the dictionary definition, cynicism is an attitude characterized by a lack of faith in altruism and a questioning of generally accepted values....

Putin’s Final Chapter: How War Became Russia’s National Curriculum

By EUvsDisinfo Many historians agree that school history textbooks shouldn’t cover current events – some historical distance is usually necessary to make sense of an...

Russia’s Military History: Never in the Wrong

By EUvsDisinfo The Kremlin’s information manipulation and influence operations are not always immediately devious. Sometimes Moscow takes a ‘softer touch’. In our previous articles we...

African Initiative: Russian FIMI Operation Disguised as a News Agency

By EUvsDisinfo The Kremlin has steadily expanded its foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) operations globally. We have tracked their footprint across the EU neighbourhood,...

The Russian regime and ideological manipulation in Spain

The Russian regime, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, has developed a strategy of systematic disinformation that transcends borders and cultural contexts. In the...

Will NATO die for Narva?

June 11, 2025 brought news that in normal times would have caused an earthquake in European capitals, or at least prompted deep reflection on...

An Unpleasant Incident

By EUvsDisinfo The Kremlin downplays Ukraine’s devastating attack on Russian military airfields, looking for distractions and feebly recycling old lies about terrorism and Anglo-Saxons instead. This...

Polish Elections in the Eyes of Moscow

By EUvsDisinfo The Polish Presidential elections showed how the Kremlin spin machine works. In a haze of hyperbolic accusations and false claims, one element stood...

The French did it? The Kremlin Playbook Strikes Again

By EUvsDisinfo Last week saw a new, yet familiar narrative circulate aimed at discrediting the democratic elections in Romania and stirring mistrust of European institutions....