... narratives in the West.”
In a time when politics is winning over people-to-people dialogue, such negative publicity of Russia reveals five challenges for today’s public diplomacy: the Moscow–West crisis of trust, U.S.–Russia political differences, information wars, disruptive technologies, and the power of stereotypes.
In fact, the author of the report Kateryna Smagliy creates a sort of a “blacklist”, which comprises not only Russia’s think tanks, universities and consultancy agencies (like ...
The best way to knock the “Russian card” out of the hands of political profiteers is to implement a well-balanced, long-term and consistent strategy of Russia’s relations with a specific state or groups of states
In recent years, Russia has unfailingly found itself the focus of the international community’s attention: Russia makes newspaper headlines, appears in TV reports and is the topic of heated public debates throughout the world. It would seem that such popularity is reason to rejoice. However...
... an analogy, the RAND report raises the question of what Russia does not influence.
The authors sound quite dramatic: “Moscow blends attributed, affiliated, and nonattributed elements and exploits new realities of online and social media to conduct information warfare at a perhaps unprecedented scale and level of complexity” (pp. 7–8). “The Russian government’s sphere of influence is global” (p. 9). “The Kremlin has built a complex production and dissemination apparatus that integrates ...
... Valdai Club conference will focus on the way war, brute force and militarism have influenced society over the past 200 years since the early 19th century.
What other issues will the conference address?
Of course, we will discuss the topical issue of information warfare and the perception of conflicts. The economic plenary session will discuss economic interdependence as a way to contain conflicts or to aggravate them. Another panel will be devoted to the possibility of a new “golden age” ...
On October 27, 2014, RIAC Deputy Program Director Timur Makhmutov and
Media and Government Relations Manager Anton Tsvetov took part in discussion “The Pen and the Bayonet: Worldview of Information Warfare?” within the lecture series of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy (CFDP).
Co-sponsored by Russian International Affairs Council
and moderated by CFDP Presidium Chairman and RIAC Member Fyodor Lukyanov
, the event attracted ...
