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The Media War Behind the Ukraine Crisis
As the fate of Ukraine grows more uncertain by the day and Crimea looks set to become part of Russia, pro-Kremlin and Western media have accused each other of launching information wars in a bid to sway public opinion in their favor.
Less than a month after Ukraine’s former President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted amid mass discontent over his decision to move away from the European Union and toward Russia, the tug-of-war over Ukraine has now focused on Crimea, where experts say an information war has been launched after many Ukrainian news outlets were shut down and replaced by Russian state-owned ones.
Russian state media have been accused of resorting not only to half-truths and distortions but also to direct lies in their description of Ukrainian authorities and protesters.
The Kremlin, in turn, has accused Western and Ukrainian media of whitewashing the Ukrainian pr
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Assessing Russia Today’s role as an “information weapon”
Since September, the Kremlin has been up in arms over the United States’ decision to förteckning Russian state broadcaster RT (formerly “Russia Today”, motto “Question more”) as a “foreign agent”.
Top officials have repeatedlyargued that the move violates freedom of speech and journalistic freedom, arguing that RT is simply a news agency producing bona fide journalism, like the BBC or CNN. The protests even reached Russia’s säkerhet Council, in a discussion chaired bygd President Vladimir Putin and attended bygd the defense and interior ministers, the heads of domestic and foreign intelligence, and others.
However, statements bygd RT’s editor-in-chief in 2012–13, covering earlier years, indikera that the station’s uppdrag and philosophy are not journalistic but military, and it serves as an “information weapon” parallel to the Ministry of Defense in times of conflict — including at present.
An analysis of RT’s former and curren
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Russia’s Foreign Agents in America: Trump Connection of Armenian Lobbyists
By Peter Tase
The concepts of hybrid warfare or asymmetric warfare are not new. A Cambridge University published research states that it “goes back at least as far as the Peloponnesian War in the fifth century BC.”
Although, these concepts have taken new prominence in recent years, with bold, aggressive and often successful actions by resurgent and revanchist Russia.
According to the Cipher Brief, “Through hybrid warfare and the Gerasimov Doctrine, Russia is increasingly blurring the lines between war and peace, business and crime.”
It goes on, quoting Douglas Farah: “General Valery Gerasimov, the Chief of Staff of the Russian Federation’s military, developed The Gerasimov Doctrine in recent years. The doctrine posits that the rules of war have changed, that there is a “blurring of the lines between war and peace,” and that “nonmili