... Propaganda in Moscow, Europe and the U.S.,” reads the title of the 58-page
report
of the of Modern Russia, released in the early October. The research points fingers at Russian, European, American experts and academics for promoting “pro-Kremlin propaganda 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,...
... planted specific value systems into an individual subconscious. Individuals view these values as their own. The success for a propaganda specialist lies in the ability to identify these mental sets and target them with a relevant media message. If the ... ... Relations
It is striking to see how relative information flows are is perceived in a similar fashion. In fact, both Russia and the Western countries, let alone Ukraine, view themselves as victims of information warfare. Each party insists that it is on the ...
... 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 ...
... depict the West as the sole culprit responsible for all Russia's ills, a blatant exaggeration.
The main focus is of course the Ukraine crisis. The West accuses Russia’s media of biased coverage of the Ukraine events, while Russia insists that the Western press is downplaying the real state of affairs in Ukraine. Counterpropaganda seems to be making huge advances in all but replacing quality analysis. "The confrontational potential in the world is building up, which is raising most serious problems, including those that need to be tackled by the media, primarily ...
