A really good read on the Russian info war directed against the EU.
RUSSIA’S CHALLENGE: DESTRUCTION OF THE EU FROM THE INSIDE - CESI http://eurasianintelligence.org/news.php?new=14&num … через @EurasianIntel
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A really good read on the Russian info war directed against the EU.
RUSSIA’S CHALLENGE: DESTRUCTION OF THE EU FROM THE INSIDE - CESI http://eurasianintelligence.org/news.php?new=14&num … через @EurasianIntel
MFA of Ukraine ✔ @MFA_Ukraine
#Forbes on #Russia's #Propaganda and Internet Trolls
http://goo.gl/VAA1Ep
Italy's Northern League calls for EU to be 'demolished' http://www.euractiv.com/sections/ele...olished-310742 …
and makes eyes to Putin
EUobserver / Russia targets Cyprus, Hungary, and Italy for sanctions veto http://euobserver.com/foreign/126879
Russia's culture of lies:
There is no such thing as "objective truth." All is spin.
A must-read by @peterpomeranzev
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/opi
Russia Waging Effective Info-War In Baltics, NATO Expert Says | The Interpreter
http://www.interpretermag.com/russia...o-expert-says/ …
Yesterday Russia launched a intensive info war set of reports--one was an "alleged" meeting between the Commander of the UA forces fighting at the Donetsk airport and a Russian mercenary Motorola----within several hours western social media was openly questioning the video of the meeting--meeting was played up big time in the Russian TV media back in Russia.
Appears that the "meeting" was a well staged fake.
@OnlineMagazin The OSCE cars in Ukraine have all license plates. Left photo: OSCE car at the meeting with Motorola.
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#Urgent request to the @OSCE_SMM
Please confirm,YOUR personal and vehicles faciliated a meeting at #Donetsk airport.
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Video is believed FAKED, but this raises a Q - were actual @OSCE_SMM reps in vid, or faked too?
@OSCE @StopFakingNews
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3BByFGIPoLI …
VIDEO #OSCE arrange meeting at #Donetsk Airport with #Ukraine "Cyborgs" & #Russia Motorola https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BByFGIPoLI …
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The second major Russian TV reporting and was carried to a degree in western media was the reported movement of three major Russian troop/mercenary convoys south towards Mariupol.
Again western social media was able to verify all three convoys were the same convoy just filmed differently to give the impression of three.
BLOG: Russians film and publish their own large columns on the move in Ukraine... http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.nl/2014/12
Don Cossack? spotted in 'to mariupol' video. So it is not filmed by locals. Thus seems orchestrated/planned video... pic.twitter.com/FIMeTSHLLa
Same truck spotted in the two 'huge' columns 'to Mariupol' So there is definitely overlap/same convoy. pic.twitter.com/lT4dxbiEWf
UPDATE: All 'to Mariupol'-videos are filming parts of the SAME convoy http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.nl/2014...e-columns.html … pic.twitter.com/YIDwFqbbgS
Then today a photo shows up on the net depicting Ukrainian Army troops standing next to proRussian troops during a big mercenary/Russian troop parade celebrating Russian Independence which is being researched by Fotoforenscis to see if it was photoshopped.
#PICTURES FROM TODAY:
LEFT: #Ukrainian_Army
RIGHT: #Local_Rebels
What is wrong with this world?!?
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Seems as if Russia is determined to depict themselves in their Russian media for their own population as getting to a "normal situation of peace" in eastern Ukraine as the target population of all three seemed to be the Russian population in general.
Founded of Russian Facebook equivalent(VKontakte) chooses exile.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/te...xile.html?_r=0
How Russia is paying the most famous newspapers around the world to spread propaganda diguised as news:
http://nomistralsforputin.com/drupal/?q=Russ
Outlaw, Anton Shekhovtsov cheked the CESI, you cited 6 days ago.
http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.be...strategic.html
kaur---while all claim it was from a proRussain think tank---the article was completely correct in everything it mentioned---so if factual then why released by a proRussian think tank?
If you take the geolocation it was talking about it is a perfect match to eastern Ukraine both in population, border crossing points and terrain.
What surprised me was the need to try to discredit the think tank---no one attempted to discredit the article---that is the key because it was factually correct
Off the topic but this was a ISIS troll that was identified by bloggers working for ISIS and who was arrested by Pakistani security services.
Best write up about the man we all knew & interacted with: Shami Witness
http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/12/17/...ansoor-biswas/ …
Article on Russian GRU Informational Psyops---
Agencies of the informational-psychological operations (IPSYOPS) of the GRU of the General Staff and the Russian Federal Security Service [FSB] were tasked to carry out a large-scale information campaign to disrupt or substantially obstruct preparations for the 4th round of mobilization in Ukraine.
The operation is planned in conjunction with the structures of the “information war” of the Russian-terrorist forces, created in the occupied areas of Donbas by GRU experts of the RF General Staff.
The main purpose of the operation is to disrupt or ultimately hinder the mobilization [in Ukraine] through a large-scale disinformation campaign, thereby preventing the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations to increase the number of operating reserves, or to significantly slow down and complicate the process.
The Ukrainian reservists and their family members are the designated target groups and objects of this campaign. The task – is to create a negative context around the ongoing so-called anti-terrorist operation (the unbearable living conditions of Ukrainian soldiers in the ATO zone; a representation of the ATO forces as “cannon fodder;” the presentation of terrorism in Donbas as a “national liberation movement,” etc.).
During the operation, there are plans to make extensive use of the formation of “properly
structured public opinion on social networks” with the assistance of video and audio materials and various “eyewitness statements.” In addition, IPSYOPS agencies in Russia and Donbas are tasked with establishing “a direct or indirect impact” on the audience through some Ukrainian mass media to create so-called “secondary credibility,” primarily through the publication of “credible materials for investigative journalism.”
At least two organizational and administrative meetings took place to discuss the coordination of activies under this operation by the Russian IPSYOPS agencies and the relevant institutions created on the occupied territory of Donbas.
Source: Dmitry Tymchuk FB
RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA POSTER:"We will teach EU how work should be divided: Entire West will be changed to work slaves!"
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Ukraine: Fighting the information war - new video via @NATO:
http://youtu.be/qszwrXtVLv4
Another example of Russia's hold on West's far-left. "News" site http://ukrainewar.info registered/ran by Eric Zuesse
http://www.alternet.org/authors/eric-zuesse …
This is HOW #Kremlin propaganda creates alternate RUSSIAN REALITY OF LIES
http://youtu.be/I6mPMmZQqxs
via @MFA_Ukraine
We tend to look at the Russian info war side of things--BUT what about the large US companies Face Book and Twitter---both of these "alleged" US companies have in fact been supporting ongoing Russian info war efforts by their constant blocking and or deleting of accounts on the "complaints" by Russian trolls or the Russian government.
Twitter has a Russia investor with 800M USD invested in Twitter and yet they claim neutrality---and a major Russian oligarch but GS together with Face Book---come on "neutral".
We worry about cyber warfare but Russian "owns" our internet companies.
Goodbye Facebook Revolutions? Page Supporting Putin Critic Blocked http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ry?id=27739780 …
Since the beginning of the Russian annexation push all we hear in the West and it is even repeated by US commenters is that NATO expansion caused the problem or it was Russian "humiliation" that has caused Russia to lash out.
Even at Putin's last press conference he repeated their "complaints".
Have not seen many in the US media push back on the Russian "myths"--and now NATO is pushing back point for point and it is an interesting read--one you do not hear Putin "talking about".
"#NATO has a Cold War mentality" - busting more #RussiaMyths
http://goo.gl/Mk0z7z
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Cyber attack damages German steel mill.
Cyberattack on German steel factory causes 'massive damage' http://www.itworld.com/article/286167
In This Info-War, The Problem Is Not Only Russia
Nathalie Vogel December 11, 2014
http://www.interpretermag.com/in-thi...t-only-russia/
There seems to be a massive Russian internal info war and cyber war ongoing against their own internet sites.
Another Youtube Channel that showed #Russia involvement in #Ukraine closed https://www.youtube.com/user/ErichHartmannCHANEL/videos … courtesy #Putin pic.twitter.com/5SkbPCY9tB
The @MoscowTimes web page is down
http://liveuamap.com/en/2014/21-dece...b-page-is-down …
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Not only FB, but Russia twitter also being blocked in connection w/ Manezhka protests
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Russia's internet authority is blocking anything that even mentions Manezhka protest on Jan 15 MTT pic.twitter.com/Q2yjxWoRpC
There are rumors that the Moscow Times has been raided by Russia's authorities. This may explain why they posted:
https://twitter.com/MoscowTimes/stat...60222426267648 …
https://twitter.com/alburov/status/546593461693345792 …
Looks like @roscomnadzor is now targeting individual tweets containing info about the Jan 15 Navalny rally at Manezh
World Service fears losing information war as Russia Today ramps up pressure http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...r-russia-today …
There appears to be a major Russian crackdown on media going on - MT, Facebook, Twitter & Web sites affected. #Evromanezhka got 'em spooked?
@MoscowTimes Ed @NabiAbdullaev says site down after attack: told by our tech people website attacked. Work on to bring it back #Russia
I have often mentioned here at SWJ that the real cause of Putin annexations of Crimea and eastern Ukraine are all tied to the democratic movement the "Maidan" because the Ukrainian governance and corruption model is and was so close to the Russian model and Putin's fear of the same thing happening in Moscow--and he basically has a deep fear of the word "democracy".
In an "alleged" fraud trial a Putin opposition leader is being charged with 10 years and it is a fake trial--a demo date and place cropped up on the net and since then the Russian government is making every attempt to stop it---but as the net is a living organism the net resistance is growing and the US companies Twitter and FB are being openly accused of supporting a dictatorship---maybe because of the large amounts of Russian investments in to them?
Durov: Vkontakte gets 53 letters in 5 hours from Russian coms regulator demanding it block pages with word "Navalny".
http://www.novayagazeta.ru/news/1690378.html …
Battling for Truth - Countering #Russia's enormous information war waged against #Ukraine, by @yevhenfedchenko.
https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/op-...th-363427.html …
So @twitter now also complying with Russian authorities, sends message to @bystrov_a saying tweet about 15 January @navalny rally illegal.
Scathing editorial in @novaya_gazeta: Putin msg: don't meddle in politics or anyone can be @Navalny anytime. #Russia
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The founder and former CEO of Vkontakte is taking the opportunity to criticize Facebook today. pic.twitter.com/4YoJps8X1P
TT "@antizapret_info: Already 14 sites blocked for posting news about #15January #Manezh https://antizapret.info pic.twitter.com/VJtadPFJG0"
Facebook and Twitter refuse to continue blocking posts about pro-Navalny rally on Jan 15. Now Russia may block them altogether - @tvrain
On Chekists' Day, Facebook blocks a page supporting Navalny by complying with the law written by Andrei Lugovoi, a Chekist. Pretty symbolic.
As #Russia blocks Facebook page calling for protest, @FT recalls #Putin description of Internet as a project of CIA.
http://tinyurl.com/l9q72x5
Seems that the NKoreans are having a tad problem with their internet.
After vow of retaliation from Obama, North Korea's internet service has collapsed. "It's toast," expert tells NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/wo...?smid=tw-share …
@tvrain says FB, Twitter ready to face closure in Russia; won't grant any new govt requests to block @navalny #Manezhka pages
Russian info war getting into high gear over the latest MH17 reporting.
So we have now two new stories--1) the Ukrainians "stole a BUK" and 2) the Ukrainian jet had no missiles when it returned but in fact it never was there to begin with.
Ha ha: Now that it is proven a Russian BUK shot down #MH17 Kremlin says "Ukrainians stole it"...
http://itar-tass.com/en/russia/768631 …
The push back against the RTL report continues - Ukrainian Combat Jet Returned Without Missiles After MH17 Crash
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20141223/1016134406.html …
.@Aleksei_Kudrin regrets that "the Russian TV channels adopted the concept of information warfare" In Russian
http://tvrain.ru/articles/aleksej_ku...idenii-379748/ …
In Russian.
Russian "secret witness" Voloshin right on time to counter @obk secret witness showing rebels with Buk shot down.
http://www.interpretermag.com/ukrain...ovements/#5862 …
Komsomolskaya Pravda produces "secret witness" Capt. Voloshin, claims he shot down MH17; Investigators to probe.
http://www.kp.ru/daily/26323.5/3204312/ …
So an Ukrainian pilot goes to Moscow to admit he shot down MH17--make sense?
The next Russian excuse will be that Santa Claus accidently hit MH17.
Snob dismantles conspiracy theory on Sukhoi fighter jet shooting down MH17 http://snob.ru/selected/entry/85644 …
In Russian dismantling a Russian info war article.
The Debunking Handbook; a short guide to debunking myths and misinformation
http://wp.me/p8Ci4-b4
#Russian propaganda went crazy after #NATO has shown a video disproving another of their lies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qszwrXtVLv4 …
Confessions of a former internet troll
http://bit.ly/1DIxbhQ
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Europe's Far Right And #Putin Get Cozy, With Benefits For Both
http://n.pr/1CWrEA5
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There has been in recent years a close cooperation between the Russian extreme Right and the LaRouchans"
http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/5889/full
Another Youtube account covering #Ukraine crisis terminated (by #Russia trolls)
https://www.youtube.com/user/NewsLentaLine/videos …
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PT 1pic./2 & List #Kremlin trolls with names and money spend by #Russia
http://bit.ly/1A0OtBT
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Anatomy of the #Russia|n #information #war in #networks.
http://bit.ly/1Ey9byz
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Documents Show How #Russia’s Troll #Army Hit #America.Adventures of RF agents
http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/do...erm=.skP2qlr9B …
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It's a good idea to watch again and again Timothy Snyder talking about Kremlin's #Ukraine propaganda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foSg6C
Outlaw09,
Good catch that Examiner link, as I'd just found an excerpt from the latest Adam Curtis documentary. Adam works for the BBC and makes excellent, thoughtful documentaries and the excerpt is on:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcy8uLjRHPM&app=desktop
It starts in Russia and Putin's young adviser. In a few words information is presented to the public that is confusing and uncertain - so there is no coherent narrative. The full documentary will be available from January 25th, on BBC IPlayer, meantime there is a lengthy summary:http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurti.../TRAILER-TRASH
The summary starts with:Quote:
Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events.But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated.
And journalism - that used to tell a grand, unfurling narrative - now also just relays disjointed and often wildly contradictory fragments of information.
Events come and go like waves of a fever. We - and the journalists - live in a state of continual delirium, constantly waiting for the next news event to loom out of the fog - and then disappear again, unexplained.
And the formats - in news and documentaries - have become so rigid and repetitive that the audiences never really look at them.
In the face of this people retreat from journalism and politics. They turn away into their own worlds, and the stories they and their friends tell each other.
I think this is wrong, sad, and bad for democracy - because it means the politicians become more and more unaccountable.
A real neo-Nazi, or at least a sympathizer - Russian Deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin.
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The story of #Dugin, a fascist nutty professor who created ideology of today's #Russia.
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articl...n/putins-brain …
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Did modern #Kremlin #PowerVertical change much? SOVIET PROPAGANDA ORGANISATIONS: A SURVEY, April 1989 http://www.psywar.org/radSovietFrontOrgs.php …
Discrete, not secret, #Russia'n Networks in #France
http://cestpassecretcestdisret.blogs...en-france.html …
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The Media Has Swallowed Five #Russia|n (Kremlin) Myths
Basically Russian has "won" their information war.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin...in-in-ukraine/ …
If only Russia had some way of getting its side of the story out there:
http://goo.gl/Xmhh5O
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UKRAINE TODAY @uatodaytv
#Berlin must counter #Kremlin manipulation of German public opinion over #Ukraine - says Bundestag official
http://uatoday.tv/geopolitics/berlin...al-400971.html …
Here are 2 articles, proving @spdde is trying to weaken the EU/US position:
http://www.dw.de/germany-warns-again...world-4025-rdf …
http://www.dw.de/german-foreign-mini...ons/a-18143066 …