... is too sensitive because the positions are completely confrontational. Then, it depends on how it evolves, but if the EU continues to perceive that Russia is meddling or interfering with elections and issues, including social media activity and these media outposts like Russia Today and Sputnik, that of course will maintain this distress at a very high level.
What do you think can help us improve things? Taking into consideration that the situation in Ukraine is not going to be solved in the near future, what do you ...
... Twitter also
announced
that it would stop taking advertising from all accounts owned by RT and Sputnik because of the Russian government meddling in the US election process. The decision looks quite strange, considering the fact that Twitter
offered
Russian media outlet 15 per cent of its election ads during the presidential election campaign.
All are equal but some are more equal than others
If we look at other foreign TV companies broadcasting to the US, we can see that among BBC America, Al Jazeera (the ...
RIAC and VIF Report #34, 2017
In 2017, Russia and India celebrate the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations. Over the years, the two states have steadily developed mutually beneficial ties. Their cooperation has achieved the level of special and privileged strategic partnership. Regular ...
... may not have disappeared entirely, but it has waned considerably. Anti-Russian sentiments are observed more often. The popular perception of Russia changes, too, mostly because the leading French media are dominated by an extremely negative image of Russia. As a rule, the French media do not publish patently false information, but the way they present facts and actual events is highly subjective. Bad things can be found in any country, including Russia, and these are the main things the media report about Moscow.
As a person ...
... participants the European Solidarity Center’s program, could be a good example.
Fake news mantra
Today the fake news mantra is frequently used in politics as an argument to discredit critics or unfavorable coverage. Trump describes the mainstream American media as “failing”, the “
Enemy of the American people
”. Likewise, the Russian Foreign Ministry uses the fake news stigma to refute inconvenient narratives. For instance, in the early April, 2017 it
labeled Kommersant’s interview
with NATO’s Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller as fake news only because it used ...
... think that, apart from the economic challenges we face, the crisis of trust is the most important thing we have to address as media.
Pavel Sharikov:
Enemy.media: The Creation of Enemy Image in Russian-American Relations
It seems like the situation in Russian media is much alike to what you have said about Germany. People feel that instead of addressing domestic issues the media is trying to distract attention using international events which do not produce as much controversy.
I think that you can’t compare ...
... sufficient to break the cycle. Yet we did have a crisis in 2008 and it wasn’t big enough, it really didn’t solve the problem. I think the next one has got to be even bigger, unfortunately.
You also said that internet is the ‘wild west’ for social media with everybody using it to their advantage. It seems to be relevant for the Western world — Russia included — do you think that the developing countries are going to step in this direction as well?
I think that there’s really not that much distinction between the developed and the developing worlds with regard to social media. There are ...
... Obama to do more, they issued a joint statement on September 22nd publicly blaming Russia and stating its intent was to influence the election; incredibly, the White House had repeatedly urged them to delay the statement.
In fact, for all of 2016, Russia’s own media was decidedly pro-Trump and anti-Clinton. Additionally, all throughout the campaign, up to and through Election Day, it is now quite clear that Russia’s propaganda machine of hundreds of websites and many thousands of social media accounts—some ...
... linking them with each other and Trump, providing even deeper and more fertile ground on which to question Trump’s pro-Russia, Pro-Putin positions and their origins. Author's note: this is the most important article I have ever written in ... ... as many people as possible as soon as possible, as this is a matter of national importance before the election that the major media outlets have missed and not to their credit.
By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter @bfry1981) Originally ...
October 1st began what could be one of the more interesting Chairships of the United Nations Security Council, with Russia taking over and being charged with a rather delicate balancing act: between conducting the numerous affairs expected to be covered by any standard Chair of the UNSC and deftly handling the ‘special’ relationship with the United States ...
