Section: Information Resistance
How much does the Russian information war cost?
A year ago Congressman Dan Mike has made a sensational statement: „Putin has spent more than 9 billion USD on propaganda to discredit Ukraine” According to Congressman Mike, the Russian president uses propaganda both in Ukraine and in its fight against the Western world. The war unleashed by Russia on Ukraine has been waged only partly by...
Journalism, as part of the information war
Words can hurt, kill or cure. In the war that is going on now in Ukraine information battles take the leading place. Shots and explosions, reports and comments have become an instruments of hybrid war in the Donbas. The reporter at war – is the fighter too, word is his main weapon. I must say, that not only Ukrainian army, but also...
Internet as a threat to the Kremlin’s propaganda
Russian television today has almost monopolized the influence on formation of the social and political agenda in the Russian Federation, – such conclusion was made by the Levada Center – respected organization conducting regular sociological research in Russia. It is noteworthy that this opinion was stated not by Western sources not...
Information Resistance Assessment (Infographic): Threats in the East and South of Ukraine
From April 15 through April 22, 2015, an extremely high level of threat has been recorded at all essential positions in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts: – A threat of terrorist attacks organized by “local” anti-Ukrainian forces, which are controlled by the intelligence services of the Russian Federation (RF); – A “export of terrorism” from the...
Regarding the Minsk agreements #FreeSavchenko
A document entitled A set of measures to implement the Minsk agreements, that has been signed in Minsk [today], is [truly] brilliant. [But] only if we’ve decided to bid farewell to Donbas as an integral part of Ukraine. First of all, in the course of negotiations and ‘coercing’ the terrorists to peace, everything from the beginning has been...
Task number one today: not allowing any talks about “peacekeeping” with Putin and rebels – IR
Concerning the further development of the situation in Donbas: Several facts. As soon as the ‘large-scale advance’ of Russian-terrorist troops started withering away, Putin started sounding off about the ‘necessity to stop combat activities’ in Ukraine. The Kremlin’s mouthpiece in the Verkhovna Rada [VR, or Parliament] of Ukraine (the...