Saturday, January 25, 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.

Lukashenka’s So-Called ‘Presidential Election’ in Belarus

By EUvsDisinfo A seventh term for Lukashenka The 70-year-old Belarusian autocrat, reigning in Minsk since 1994, is preparing to stage a coronation for yet another five-year...

Joint Action to Expose Russia’s Information Manipulation Attempts

By EUvsDisinfo The EEAS, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Sweden continue to strengthen their responses to Russia’s information...

Shouting at a Mirror

By EUvsDisinfo From the beginning of Russia’s full scale-invasion invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the Kremlin has tried to intimidate Western countries by rattling...

Revival of the Stalinist Sport Parades in Putin’s Russia

By EUvsDisinfo Putin’s fight with ‘neoliberal’ international sports On 17 October 2024, a few months after the Paris Olympic Games, Putin took part in a conference...

Breaking Down Lavrov’s Words: a Fact Check of His Annual Press Conference

By EUvsDisinfo In his annual press conference, summing up Russia’s foreign policy performance in the past year, Lavrov provided a series of distorted facts, misleading...

Everything is Going to Be All Right

By EUvsDisinfo Every year, shortly before midnight on 31 December, Vladimir Putin tells Russians that better times lie ahead, everything is going to be all right and Russia...

The Kremlin Prepares for the Polish EU Presidency

By EUvsDisinfo As Poland prepares to take on the presidency of the EU Council on 1 January 2025, it continues to face intense disinformation attacks...

RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA: SUMMARY OF 2024

The Russian-Ukrainian war continues, and the Kremlin's demand for propaganda efforts remains consistently high. The main mistake may be underestimating the power of propaganda...

Russia uses sports and athletes in propaganda and disinformation efforts

Sports have always played an important role in international politics, but in Russia's case it is one of its key propaganda tools. The Kremlin...

Operation Sluice and the migrant crisis as preparation for full-scale aggression

In 2021, Europe faced a migrant crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border as a result of the deliberate actions of Alyaksandr Lukashenka's regime. The so-called...