... moment we are in and provides a list of trends that are troubling the thinking community. He singles out three trends in particular:
First,
the explosive development of communication technologies
has thrown think tanks in the same playing field as the media. Research consumers in government build their understanding of the quality of work carried out by think tanks, among other things, on their reputation among the general public, which makes think tanks fight for mentions and coverage my media outlets....
... bilateral relations, yet far from healing them, they become a topic of debates, viewed as hidden propaganda in the “hybrid warfare.”
Even prominent diplomats and experts, who try to foster ties between Russia and the West, are no longer immune to media attacks and suspicion.
Bloomberg’s
recent
attempts
to link the activity of diplomat Henry Kissinger and of the Center for the National Interest’s Dimitri Simes to the Trump’s Russia collusion increase distrust toward public diplomacy and ...
... struggle. The parties are so taken with introducing various acts and bills and making other decisions intended to hurt the Russian leadership as much as possible that they are becoming oblivious to the interests of their own country, including its immediate security concerns.
In Kiev, the “Russian card” is nearly the principal trump card for national self-assertion, the key argument justifying the inability of the current Ukrainian leaders to make any kind of progress in resolving pressing socioeconomic ...
... rather than on Ukraine. It 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 ...
Even if we consider the fact that Russia-US relations keep deteriorating, such an attack on the particular media may be a dangerous precedent which can likely lead to the global practice of limiting of the foreign media activity
In November 2017, RT America
was registered
as an agent of the foreign government in the US. The decision seems to be another ...
With media becoming a proper battleground, it is becoming yet more difficult to learn the news. Olga Alekseeva, RIAC Member and Editor-in-Chief of
gazeta.ru
online newspaper shares her thoughts on information wars and Telegram channels that have recently ...
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 contacts between the two leaders have become an established practice. However, in order to make full use of the collaboration potential, ties between Russia and India should be taken to a qualitatively new level...
...
300 years of Russia-France diplomatic relations have been marked by a lot of events that seriously affected their development.
The interest for Russia seems to have reduced among the French elite, involved in foreign policy making. Leading French media create quite a negative image of Russia. However, the relations framework established during General de Gaulle’s 1966 visit to Russia allowed the countries to withstand the trial by sanctions. Despite the ongoing Ukrainian crisis, the institutional ...
... unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near,”
he wrote
.
Numerous conspiracy theories and forgeries also contained what media experts today describe as fake news.
The Donation of Constantine
, a doctored Roman imperial decree of the Middle Ages, is based on
legends
that date back to the 5th century. According to it, the 4th century Roman emperor, Constantine the Great,...
In the middle between the U.S. and Russia. Interview with Eric Gujer, Editor-in-Chief at Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Eric Gujer, Editor-in-Chief at Neue Zürcher Zeitung
With media outlets being the center of attention recently, one has started to doubt what news nowadays is, what media to believe and what power they possess. RIAC Website Editor Maria Smekalova discussed with Eric Gujer, Editor-in-Chief at leading German language ...
