... not a sign of weakness, but rather an indication of strength and political maturity.
Skeptics argue that independence, objectivity and honesty are impossible to reach in today’s politics, because there are sponsors who determine the agenda.
Third, Russia and the West have to shy away from pushing propaganda: It doesn’t create trust, but fuels suspicion. Russian and Western journalists would better avoid mutual finger-pointing and stigmatizing: It is necessary to listen to and understand each other. It is a matter of trust and political empathy....
... of radical Islam
Since 2013 when the crisis in Ukraine broke out, the notion of information warfare has been widely used in Russia, in the West and of course in Ukraine. However, the term itself provides little, if any, insight into what is happening in the information ... ...
So why are independent media and blogs often much more aggressive than state-owned networks? Why are people eager to spread propaganda at their own free will without any coercion, producing a multiplier effect?
To answer this question, we should look ...
... the differences between the Cold War and now. During the Cold War, there were two different informational spaces: One was within the Soviet Union and its satellite states and the other one was in the Western world and non-Communist world. Today we — Russia and the West — live in a single information space, which makes the task of propaganda more difficult,”
he told
Russia Direct
in an interview
.
At the same time, Trenin argues propaganda does “necessarily kill objectivity everywhere.“ After all, it is a free choice to participate in information wars or to be professional ...
...
said Head of Russia's Presidential Executive Office Sergey Ivanov
at the World Congress of the Russian Press.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Elena Alekseenkova:
Chaos and Play without Rules: On the Current
Crisis of Confidence in Trust in Relations
between Russia and the West
EU countries are preparing
a "strategy for countering Kremlin's propaganda", while also imposing limits on Russian journalists. This will narrow the space for media offering an opinion that differs from the EU’s official view on processes in Europe and further afield. This does little to boost understanding ...
