Tuesday, December 24, 2024

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.

1 000 and 4 000 Days of Russia’s War Against Ukraine

By EUvsDisinfo Russia’s war against Ukraine started in 2014 with the invasion and illegal annexation of Crimea. Russia engineered the war in Eastern Ukraine and later annexed parts of Donbas...

Strong Enough

By EUvsDisinfo The Kremlin continued its elections interference campaign in the US until the final moments, utilising the same playbook we have repeatedly uncovered. This week,...

Green Agenda or a ‘Global Plot’?

By EUvsDisinfo With COP 29 approaching, Pro-Kremlin outlets’ climate coverage reveals a calculated strategy: acknowledge climate change while using it as a tool to attack...

Putin Keeping Up Appearances

By EUvsDisinfo Over the last week, leaders and leaders-to-be around the world have appeared in public and some of their words about others deserve scrutiny....

Brick by (Crumbling) Brick

By EUvsDisinfo Kremlin disinformation peddlers spare no effort to gush about the BRICS Summit in Kazan, singing praises to Putin as the chief architect of...

Fifty Shades of the Kremlin’s ‘Red Lines’

By EUvsDisinfo In international politics and diplomacy, clearly signalling one’s positions, or so-called ‘red lines’, has a real practical value – to avoid miscalculations or...

Moldova on Moscow’s Mind

By EUvsDisinfo Moldovans went to the polls on 20 October to elect their next president and to enshrine in the country’s constitution their desire to...

Twists and Turns: Georgian Dream Rhetoric on the EU

By EUvsDisinfo Georgia’s ruling party has adopted increasingly hostile rhetoric against the EU and the West as it seeks to clamp down on the opposition....

Pipeline of Lies and Fantasies

By EUcsDisinfo Winter is approaching and with it a new focus on those familiar Kremlin disinformation narratives about the EU’s energy supply and the folly...

No time for doubt

Stanisław Żaryn Peace and ceasefire negotiations that the West is more and more intensively trying to force on Ukraine, may have negative consequences for Central...