Sunday, April 20, 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.

Ukrainian bloggers use social media to track Russian soldiers fighting in east

In his free time, Ukrainian blogger Anton Pavlushko trawls through Russian-language social networking sites searching for evidence of foreign soldiers in his country. “Sometimes you...

EU sets up team to counter Russian propaganda

The European Union has created a team to fight Russian propaganda headed by Czech journalist Jakub Kalenský, Ukrainian newspaper Europeiska Pravda reported on Thursday, with reference...

How Western plans to fight Putin’s propaganda war could backfire

An information war is raging in Eastern Europe; at stake are perceptions of the situation in Ukraine. In both Russia and the West, the...

Meet the ‘Kremlin trolls’, the humans behind Putin’s propaganda machinery

The operation that has worried the EU is drawing Serbia away from its EU membership path, convinced people that Ukraine is neo-Nazi and Putin...

The devil is in the details. Information warfare in the light of Russia’s military...

By highlighting informational threats and giving them a military dimension, the authors of the Russian Federation's military doctrine have outlined the concept of information...

Russian ambassador called on the carpet

Czech foreign affairs minister summons H.E. Sergei Kiselev to explain blacklist, controversial 1968 documentary Czech Foreign Affairs Minister Lubomír Zaorálek has summoned Russian Ambassador Sergei...

Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin’s War in Ukraine

Russia is at war with Ukraine. Russian citizens and soldiers are fighting and dying in a war of their government's own making. Russian President...

Armed With Google and YouTube, Analysts Gauge Russia’s Presence in Ukraine

An unusual investigation using publicly available videos, smartphone photographs and satellite images shows that Russia is continuing to defy the West by conducting protracted...

Did Russia Just Effectively Outlaw Internet Anonymizers?

A Russian court has ruled to block part of the website of RosKomSvoboda, a Russian Internet freedom and human rights organization, on the grounds...

Sputnik News Agency Launches in Azerbaijan

The Sputnik multimedia news agency has announced the launch of its news portal in Azerbaijan.The new online resource, available in both Azerbaijani and Russian at sputnik.az...