A useful guide for the layman on this practice:http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.nl/2014...ter-troll.html
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A useful guide for the layman on this practice:http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.nl/2014...ter-troll.html
An enlightening article on the use of a single "individual" in multiple different TV interviews by a Russian TV Station.
http://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/v...es-350446.html
An interesting "how to" do paid Russian blogging or astroturfering.
http://boingboing.net/2014/06/03/rus...d-astrotu.html
http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/do...my-hit-america
According to the same leak, that talks about trolling, FSB and Russian presidential administration have been coordinating information flow in Russian central mass media organisations since beginning of December 2013. This leak is talks about newspaper "Moskovski komsomolets".
http://theins.ru/politika/889/2/Quote:
Сейчас тексты про Киев еще курирует «Прибой»(2е управление ФСБ — прим. И.М.), их человек постоянно в редакции, молодой, зовут Роман то ли Чавес, то ли Чаус, и человек из АП. Роман говорит, что так сейчас во всех центральных СМИ, для коррекции в освещении киевских событий.
Ps internet says that "Priboi" is FSB special forces training unit :confused:
The ultimate infowar comment by Putin;
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20140604/190...Troops-to.html
One comment by local Russian lady from Donetsk at 8:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtdVVFhjdqA
Wise words indeed. I hope she and almost all the others stay safe, which is sadly not sure as payed thugs have attacked, kinapped and even tortured and murdered those which speak out against Putin's madness. Perhaps the greatest tragedy that some of the seperatists, brainwashed by Russian propaganda, are indeed fighting for the 'good' cause.
Russian media empire-----
http://www.businessweek.com/articles...u-be-the-judge
Putin and the media campaigners are now shifting gears in order to try to get some kind of conversation going with the West in order "to get back to normal" as their economy is suffering and their currency is still taking a major hit.
One sees this theme now on multiple media outlets in a number of different but almost same wording.
Notice how Russian uses the loose term anti constitutional---the Russians never have accepted that the elected Ukrainian Parliament once learning that their President had fled the Ukraine in a super majority to include even the Party of Regions which he was part of ---overwhelming voted to kick him out---sounds like democracy at work and is fully under Ukrainian law "constitutional" especially since the Parliament before the kick out vote changed the Ukrainian constitution back to the one from 2004 which was a Parliament focused Constitution.
But since Putin and co have declared the government illegal, junta, Right Sector, neo nationalists and Nazi's it is hard to change infowar directions if one wants to start a dialogue on one's own terms.
Interfax from today:
10:04 Putin: West has to admit anti-constitutional coup in Ukraine
By placing this infowar statement into play Russian is trying to grasp the straw of hey since the West had a coup so we were "legal" in taking the Crimea.
See the West are the bad guys we the Russians are the good "legal" guys-all designed especially for internal consummation and the attempt to split the West leadership.
Here is the latest infowar shift---the Crimea and Ukraine are not about Russian nationalism---it is all about "economics" which has "nothing" to do with Russian nationalism.
http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/734820
Will be interesting to see how the rest of the connected global media plays this new story line from Putin
Moderators, I don't understand why you closed the "Ukraine" thread. There is going on war that should be covered by this site. Am I wrong? I have to find now excuse to post this information here. SBU continues their infowar effort posting intercepted call between cossacks in Donetsk and in their leader in Russia. Leader coordinates cossacks activities in Ukraine and arranges border crossing for resupply, enforcements etc. He deals with kidnapped OSCE observers problem. Film makers have added also Putin's comments about cossacks organisation and their tasks in general.
http://www.ukrinform.ua/eng/news/sbu...s_video_322410Quote:
KYIV, June 4 /Ukrinform/. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has established a direct involvement of Russian Cossack structures to supply weapons to terrorist organizations operating in the east of Ukraine, as well as the kidnapping of OSCE monitors on May 29 this year, according to a video posted on the SBU website.
Ataman of the “Almighty Don Host" Nikolai Kozitsyn says in the video that all his actions on the detention of the hostages he agrees with the Kremlin.
"This is a command from the top. From afar, from afar ... Everything is agreed," the SBU press center quoted him as saying.
kaur---moderators closed the thread because of my disputes with mirhond which if the moderators have noticed has not moved to another SWJ thread as he was anyway part of the infowar efforts by the Russians. Somehow they took offense at me calling mirhond a Russian fascist and apparently they did not understand just how the term Russian fascist is even defined in Russia nor how the Russian themselves use the term.
Americans as a whole have problems with terms like fascists, nationalism, or imperialism.
Why he picked SWJ is interesting but that the moderators even tolerated him is even more interesting to me.
The video is critical--- as you know the Cossack was initially being seen by you and myself and yet mirhond tried to sidestep his beard photo being seen back in 2008.
The war has shifted and you are right ---shifted now to a irregular guerrilla war with Russia flowing weapons and irregulars into the Ukraine daily.
Russia prides itself in protecting it's borders but somehow cannot "see" KAMAZs painted in Russian military green in convoys of 10 or more?
The video does in fact counter the Russian infowar statements being carried daily by Interfax and TASS and Putin in his French TV interview yesterday---he "claimed" no Russian military/security forces in the Ukraine---notice he did not say a word about Russian citizen "irregulars" carrying Russian passports with Russian exit border stamps in their passports.
This is being reported in the last several hours ago out of the Ukraine---so much for Russian Interfax/TASS/Putin statements that they are not "assisting" the irregulars as one attack is coming from the Russian border crossing point itself.
"The border crossing “Marinivka” is attacked from two sides. Fierce battle continues"
This Russian infowar campaign is in direct support to their new UW strategy called New Generation Warfare and you are right one would think it is important enough to fully understand as we will be seeing more of it in the coming years.
The Ukraine thread was (most recently) closed for reasons other than what Outlaw indicates.
kaur--
Russian inforwar bloggers are not only limited to say the Ukraine or here at SWJ.
Some of us troll the underground dark sites for corporate security reasons and troll for sites selling stolen credit cads by the thousands.
There is one US internet security type who has a great reputation for "lifting the vale" of these dark sites and often writes articles about them together with screen shots of what he finds.
He gets "greetings from Russia" comments on specific articles written in the same style of poor English as we witnessed from mirhond.
Then when other commenters who track his articles similar to SWJ come in with their somewhat direct comments he backs out of the discussion much as mirhond did---same technique, Russian in nature, poor English, attempted disruption of blog site.
Sound familiar?
Example:
His user name below---
dump me if you can Goodfellas
June 4, 2014 at 12:35 pm
violating a ridiculous number of McDonald’s trademarks . Zzz you so funny Brian , like a funny guy from Coming to America .They have golden archers but we have golden gates, they have Big Mac but we have Big Muc .
i wonder how many laws did you violate Brian ?? i can name at list 10 right now . Do you want to hear them ??
i give you heads up
handling of stolen goods is one of them
Many of the infowar comments are driven by paid Russian bloggers and there has been some comments that some of the Russian gangs are jumping in as money flows for this type of work.
Just a side comment---some of these dark internet stolen card sites are extremely exclusive, with only a direct personal invite to log in and in Russian.
As the fighting it heavy in east Ukraine and more and more actual media reports of Russia citizens fighting in the Ukraine are coming out with photos and physical interviews this particular Interfax release went into play yesterday.
It has been "mentioned" three previous times over the last five weeks, but did not take off in the global media so I think they are trying it again.
Following the motto the US has sent private contractors to the Ukraine so it is OK for Russian citizens to be "helping" fellow Russians.
Notice how it was lanced just prior to Putin arriving in France.
http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?id=511636
Just a link to the BBC article titled Russian propaganda machine 'worse than Soviet Union' .
Many of the victims of this 'Stalinist' propaganda war are indeed ethnic Russian in Russia speaking Russian and many will still pay a heavy price for Putin's war. A good deal doesn't realize it so far, drunken by Putin's propaganda poision.Quote:
Cultural historian and publisher Irina Prokhorova goes further - she calls it "Stalinist", reminiscent of the anti-Western hysteria which marked the grim repressive years of the late 1940s.
And what worries the liberal intelligentsia is that the aggressive tone is being directed inwards as well.
Ever since President Putin warned he would not tolerate a fifth column of national traitors in his historic speech on Crimea's annexation in March, Russia's beleaguered opposition has felt under siege.
The useful idiots and partly payed Putinfans in the West won't have to pay a similar price, thanks to Western law and democracy. An excellent program by the BBC does a fine job at exploring the history of the term 'useful idiot' and the idiots behind it.
Keep in mind that some of the 'idiots' and others get of course handsomely payed by the Kremlin to spread it's propaganda like Alexander Rahr. He worked first for American institutions, perhaps the pay (and the honey) was better on the other side...Quote:
The phrase 'useful idiots', supposedly Lenin’s, refers to Westerners duped into saying good things about bad regimes.
In political jargon it was used to describe Soviet sympathisers in Western countries and the attitude of the Soviet government towards them.
Useful idiots, in a broader sense, refers to Western journalists, travellers and intellectuals who gave their blessing – often with evangelistic fervour – to tyrannies and tyrants, thereby convincing politicians and public that utopias rather than Belsens thrived.
Novaya Gazeta shows couple fake news.
http://translate.google.com/translat...n&hl=&ie=UTF-8
Putins Trolle by the German Sueddeutsche is propably one of the best researched articles on that aspect of Russian cyber operations. The details of the various modi operandi based partly on internal material are interesting if expected.
The planning and analysis phases seem to be pretty business-like. Overall that line of media manipulation is easily outsourced and the keyboard soldiers are cheap, quickly trained and replaceable. If one considers the miniscule budget and the great manipulation return on that investment I expect that in the future we will see much more of that stuff even if major social networks and media harden themselves considerably.Quote:
Was wirkt wie das Werk eines der vielen Verwirrten, die taeglich zusammen viele Terabyte Mumpitz ins Internet absondern, ist in Wahrheit sorgfaeltig geplant, kalkuliert und strategisch platziert. Der Nutzer mit dem absichtlich irrefhrenden Namen "The American Dream" (Adresse: youtube.com/TheUSAmericanDream) wurde von russischen PR-Spezialisten der "Agentur zur Analyse des Internets" angelegt. Die Firma mit Sitz in Sankt Petersburg beschaeftigte zuletzt bis zu 600 Mitarbeiter. Ihre Hauptaufgabe: Meinungen im Internet im Sinne des Kreml zu manipulieren. Etwa eine Million Dollar lie sie sich das zuletzt kosten, pro Monat. Das belegen interne Dokumente und E-Mails leitender Mitarbeiter der Agentur, die eine Gruppe anonymer Informanten im Internet zugaenglich gemacht hat.
Russian Novaya Gazeta nr 1 guy said last week directly that this is new modi operandi for FSB. They catched some time ago 1 female journalist, who was sent to spy on them, because they are considered opposition newspaper. She told them a lot of interesting things. She was sent by by trolls' company security unit. Those units are in Russia manned by former security services guys.
Interview in Russian http://tvrain.ru/articles/lobkov_dmi...lpake_-369529/
One must love the double tongued language Interfax and the Russian FM uses especially the word fascist.
09:14 Moscow outraged by fascist provocations against Russian embassy in Kyiv
There where no more that 300 individuals protesting the shoot down of an Ukrainian aircraft with a Russian MANPAD killing 49 so I guess protesting the killing of Ukrainian military personnel is now considered being "fascist".
But somehow "Moscow" overlooks the Russian MANPAD as well as the three T64s, and one BM21 that had it "somehow" let through the FSB "secured" Russian/Ukrainian border.
Assume "secured" as Interfax had released a formal statement attributed to Putin who gave guidance to the FSB and Russian Border Security Command to seal the border.
What is equally impressive is the lack of push back by Western media to the fake and often misleading reporting as one would think it kind of gives bad press to them when they carry fake reporting---they do not seem to mind being apparently used.
Yes we see on occasions an article by say the BBC or the German media but has anyone heard any comments in the open public by a leading western political type and or national leader ie say Merkel or Obama?
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Monday, June 23, 2014
Window on Eurasia: In Ukraine, Putin is Carrying Out ‘Biggest Information Special Op’ in Modern Times, Eidman Says
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After the Maidan, he continues, “the situation of Russian-speaking citizens” of Ukraine “did not change. “’The ‘uprising’ in the Donbas occurred not as a result of a deteriorating of the situation, but just the reverse, the situation became catastrophic as a result of this ‘uprising.’” People have done what they have done only because they were deceived and misled.
They were “consciously led to a state of mass psychosis. The irrational fear and hatred of the Russian speakers to the new Ukrainian authorities was intentionally provoked with the help of a brainwashing campaign, the dissemination of panic rumors, and the work of Russian media and political technologists.”
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.be/...-putin-is.htmlQuote:
No one threatened Donetsk or Luhansk, least of all Kyiv, until the revolt forced the Ukrainian army to intervene. “The population [of the two oblasts] did not need a war” and it has not brought them anything but suffering. “But there are forces interested in provoking the conflict and using the population of these regions for their own selfish interests.”
These include the Putin regime which has used the crisis to boost its domestic standing, “part of the eastern Ukrainian oligarchy and political elite” who lost their positions when Yanukovich fled, and “Russian nationalists, ‘imperialists,’ ‘Cossack,’ Orthodox clericals, national socialists who form the greater part of volunteers from Russia.”
Not one of these three groups needs the residents of Donetsk or Luhansk except as tools for their own purposes, but they collectively and not the people of the two Ukrainian oblasts are fanning the fires of war. If they ceased to do so, the conflict would end. In the meantime, one can only hope that the people there and elsewhere will learn to “oppose Russian disinformation.”
Indeed, indeed.
Ukrainian Church Faces Obscure Pro-Russia Revolt in Its Own Ranks
It was founded by the Czech national Dohnal accused of having served as a Soviet intelligence mole called 'Tonek' and can dispose of a surprising amount of money and wealth relative to it's tiny size.Quote:
LVIV, Ukraine — In a zealously nationalist region of Ukraine that clamors to join Europe and bubbles with suspicion toward Russia, Father Andriy, a preacher at Our Lady of Everlasting Succor church, was defiantly out of step with the mood of his flock.
The European Union, he explained after a Sunday service, is an “empire of evil” committed to defying the word of God and to spreading homosexuality and pedophilia. As for antigovernment protesters who toppled President Viktor F. Yanukovych and are praised as heroes in this western corner of Ukraine, the priest sees only “Godless deviants” and “fools” who are “in the pay of hostile foreign powers.”
Such views, espoused by a small but noisy group of fundamentalist Catholic clerics in western Ukraine, are commonplace among the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church and its Ukrainian affiliate, whose Moscow-based patriarch is a firm ally of President Vladimir V. Putin.
Obviously such news is an easy target for sarcasm, sadly after the Russian network of men and money in Europe has been increasingly revealed it is difficult to rule such things out.
Such an investment by the Kremlin requires relative little capital and can cause considerable confusion and outsized influence.
Here is a link to an article by Radio Free Europe on how two of their videos were "redone" and "portrayed" in a different direction. Showing what they broadcast and then what the Russians broadcast.
http://www.rferl.org/content/russian.../25430290.html
Unattributed and one could even go as far as saying plagiarism :D
E.g.,
Note: lack of link as if I thought it up myself.Quote:
According to unattributed US sources, Russia has massed up to 30,000 troops on Ukraine's eastern frontier - and the key thing is they are arrayed and equipped to go on to the offensive at very short notice.
20 lies about Ukraine.
http://www.examiner.com/list/russia-...-about-ukraine
40 lies about Ukraine.
http://www.examiner.com/list/russia-...-about-ukraine
60 lies about Ukraine.
http://www.examiner.com/list/russia-...-about-ukraine
Quote:
Putin, highlighting shameless liars, bitterly calls Goebbels a ‘talented man’
Russian leader thanks international gathering of rabbis for communities’ fight against ‘Nazi revival’
July 10, 2014
http://www.timesofisrael.com/putin-c...g-with-rabbis/Quote:
A Kremlin transcript of Putin’s address at the meeting did not specify where he saw Nazism being revived.
In the past, Putin has called the leaders of the revolution that toppled the regime of Ukrainian former president Viktor Yanukovych “Nazis” and “neo-Nazis,” and cited what he said was their anti-Semitism to justify Russia’s actions in Ukraine since March, when it annexed Crimea from its western neighbor.
Many Ukrainian Jewish leaders and the country’s government have dismissed these assertions, saying that the claims about anti-Semitism are being made for political purposes.
In Russian https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PN5rX5aHWr4
Who should organise this kind of organisation?
http://ndupress.ndu.edu/Portals/68/D...ectives-11.pdf
Russian media will get good financial boost.
http://translate.google.be/translate...00%26bih%3D799
Outlaw mentioned this Ukraineatwar post in parallel thread.
http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.be/2014...adams.html?m=1
This connection was mentioned among others in February.
http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.co...-anti.html?m=1
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Russia and the Menace of Unreality
How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare
PETER POMERANTSEVSEP 9 2014
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“If previous authoritarian regimes were three parts violence and one part propaganda,” argues Igor Yakovenko, a professor of journalism at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, “this one is virtually all propaganda and relatively little violence. Putin only needs to make a few arrests—and then amplify the message through his total control of television.”
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The point of this new propaganda is not to persuade anyone, but to keep the viewer hooked and distracted—to disrupt Western narratives rather than provide a counternarrative. It is the perfect genre for conspiracy theories, which are all over Russian TV. When the Kremlin and its affiliated media outlets spat out outlandish stories about the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in July—reports that characterized the crash as everything from an assault by Ukrainian fighter jets following U.S. instructions, to an attempted NATO attack on Putin’s private jet—they were trying not so much to convince viewers of any one version of events, but rather to leave them confused, paranoid, and passive—living in a Kremlin-controlled virtual reality that can no longer be mediated or debated by any appeal to ‘truth.’
http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...fare/379880/2/Quote:
Like its domestic equivalents, RT also focuses on conspiracy theories—from 9/11 truthers to the hidden Zionist hand in Syria’s civil war. Western critics often snigger at these claims, but the coverage has a receptive audience. In a recent paper, “The Conspiratorial Mindset in the Age of Transition,” which examined conspiracy theories in France, Hungary, and Slovakia, a team of researchers from leading European think tanks reported that supporters of far-right parties tend to be more likely than supporters of other parties to believe in conspiracies. And right-wing nationalist parties, which are often allied ideologically and financially with the Kremlin, are rising. In Hungary, Jobbik is now the second-largest political party. In France, Marine Le Pen’s National Front recently won 25 percent of the vote in elections for the European parliament.
Analysis of Russia's Information Campaign Against Ukraine.
https://nllp.jallc.nato.int/IKS/Shar...%20Ukraine.pdfQuote:
The report analyses Russia's information campaign against Ukraine, covering the period from the 3rd Eastern Partnership. Summit in Vilnius (28-29 November
Russia’s Information Warfare Strategy: Can the Nation Cope in Future Conflicts?
Timothy Thomas
Published online: 10 Mar 2014
Free access.Quote:
This article discusses new developments in Russia’s information and cyber warfare concepts. It updates information based on old paradigms and introduces several new developments that are influencing the current paradigm. It examines the potential shape of Russia’s cyber strategy and offers a prediction as to how they might ‘cyber cope’ in future conflict.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...5#.VE5ReCLF8jI
Russian authorities have labeled their Ukrainian opponents with fascist label. It seems that this is old trick. What a publishing house grade rumour mill! Today there are huge "force multipliers" internet and television that cover globe.
http://www.jfk-online.com/mitrokhin.htmlQuote:
A reliable source of the Polish friends [Polish intelligence], an American entrepreneur and owner of a number of firms closely connected to the petroleum circles of the South, reported in late November that the real instigators of this criminal deed were three leading oil magnates from the South of the USA -- Richardson, Murchison and Hunt, all owners of major petroleum reserves in the southern states who have long been connected to pro-fascist and racist organizations in the South.
Deja vu rhetoric in Hungary and Ukraine almost 60 years later?
Like Eastern Europe 1960. and Bolotnaja protest meeting in Moscow 2012 and Arab spring, color revolutions in CIS?Quote:
ON EACH OF the three occasions when the Red Army intervened to restore pro-Soviet orthodoxy in a wayward Communist state-Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Afghanistan in 1979-the KGB played a prominent part in what was euphemistically termed the process of "normalization." When the Hungarian uprising began in October 1956 with mass demonstrations calling for free elections and the withdrawal of Soviet troops, the KGB chairman, General Ivan Aleksandrovich Serov, flew to Budapest to take personal charge of KGB operations. At an emergency meeting of security and police officers in the interior ministry, Serov denounced their reluctance to fire on the demonstrators: "The fascists and imperialists are bringing out their shock troops into the streets of Budapest, and yet there are still comrades in your country's armed forces who hesitate to use arms!" Sandor Kopacsi, the Budapest chief of police, who was soon to side with the freedom fighters, replied scornfully:
Evidently the comrade adviser from Moscow has not yet had time to inform himself of the situation in our country. We need to tell him that these are not "fascists" or other "imperialists" who are organizing the demonstration; they come from the universities, the handpicked sons and daughters of peasants and workers, the fine flower of our country's intelligentsia which is demanding its rights…7
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Though it was not until after the Prague Spring of 1968 that the Red Army intervened again to enforce Soviet ideological orthodoxy, Moscow showed growing anxiety during the 1960s at increasing Western influence within the Soviet Bloc. The KGB reported that the West was engaged in wide-ranging "subversive activity in the political and ideological sphere against the socialist countries… seeking to persuade the population of the superiority of the Western way of life." The "subversion" took many forms: broadcasting, propagandist publications, information distributed by Western embassies, East-West cultural and scientific exchanges, tourism and letterwriting. In the Centre's view, Western radio stations such as the BBC World Service and Radio Liberty threatened to cause "immense harm" by broadcasting propaganda designed to weaken the fraternal ties between the Soviet Union and the socialist states of eastern Europe.10 What most worried the KGB was that "the broadcasts were popular with the intelligentsia and young people."
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"The West's subversive activities," complained one KGB report, were "harming the cause of Socialist construction" throughout the Soviet Bloc, encouraging nationalist tendencies in the states of eastern Europe and damaging their ties with the Soviet Union. The greatest harm was being done among the intelligentsia and young people. The KGB noted "an unhealthy tendency" among writers towards "ideological co-existence" with the West and a growing belief that literature was no business of the Party. Students showed a worrying tendency to set up independent non-Party organizations for "free discussion on the model of English clubs." One undated KGB report picked out two subversive texts currently attracting "growing interest:" The New Class by the heretical Yugoslav Communist Milovan Djilas, and the works of the late nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.14
It is easy to see why Djilas's devastating expose of the Soviet (Russian? by kaur)system as a co-optive oligarchy run by a privileged Party (United Russia party? by kaur)nomenklatura should have been seen as so subversive. In 1963 the twenty-year-old Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky was sent to psychiatric hospital for possessing a copy of it. Even for KGB officers The New Class was seen as a potentially dangerous text. When General Oleg Kalugin finally read the book in the KGB library in 1981, twenty-four years after its publication in the West, he found himself secretly agreeing with it.15 Why Nietzsche should have been mentioned in the same breath as Djilas is more puzzling. His call for a "revaluation of all values" so that the life force of the strongest should not be hampered by the weak, though bearing some relation to the actual practice of Stalinism, was ideological anathema. But the works of Nietzsche, unlike those of Djilas, were scarcely likely to subvert the youth of the Soviet Bloc. The author of the KGB report probably knew no more about the great German philosopher than that he was a well-known enemy of Marxism.
Homefront seems to be under control by Kremlin.
Influencing international audience needs additional effort.Quote:
Most Russians believe that the country's state-run news agencies have provided objective coverage of the events unfolding during the Ukraine conflict, a poll by the Levada Center revealed Wednesday.
Fifty-nine percent of respondents to the poll, conducted between Oct. 24 and 27, said they disagreed with the notion often expressed by Western critics that Russian media is distorting the facts on the Ukraine crisis.
Another 13 percent of respondents said they agreed with the statement that Russia is conducting an information war against Ukraine — but that it is justified. Eleven percent said Russian media was guilty of biased media reporting and that it was "harmful and dangerous."
Most respondents also said they noticed an information war being waged against Russia as a result of the conflict, with 54 percent of respondents citing Ukraine as the ringleader of the information war and 55 percent the U.S.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/511047.htmlQuote:
Russia is rapidly expanding its global propaganda empire, and while some of its mouth pieces and media outlets are broadly recognized as closely tied to or owned by the Kremlin, others continue to escape the world’s attention, passing themselves off as independent projects. In the most recent major example, on November 10, the director of the Kremlin-backed international media corporation RT (formerly Russia Today), Dmitry Kisilev, announced the launch of a new “brand” connected to the RT parent company—a gigantic news agency to be named “Sputnik” (Vedomosti, November 10). According to Kisilev, the project includes a main website, Sputniknews.com, with more than 800 hours of daily programming in 30 languages, covering over 130 cities in 34 countries. Kisilev says these numbers will increase in 2015 by 30 new “multimedia hubs,” each hosting radio stations, news bureaus, press-centers and employing 30 to 70 staffers. And in addition to the three languages RT itself already broadcasts in—English, Spanish and Arabic—on December 1, the media outlet plans to launch a Chinese-language service as well. It is noteworthy that the online IP address for Sputniknews.com points to Moscow’s Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Agency of International Information (ip-tracker.org, accessed November 12)—the official name of the large, state-owned Russian news agency RIA Novosti, which is set for liquidation this year.
http://www.jamestown.org/programs/ed...b#.VGRh4oikqrU
40+ page report.Quote:
The Interpreter and the Institute of Modern Russia present a special report by Peter Pomerantsev, author of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: the Surreal Heart of the New Russia, and our editor-in-chief, Michael Weiss, on the Kremlin’s weaponization of information, culture and money to achieve foreign policy goals and undermine opponents.
In recent years, the Kremlin has made much use of information warfare, gaining support in the West from nostalgic communist fellow travelers, the rising far-right and conspiracy theorists. The rebranding today of the international branches of Russia’s state-owned Rossiya Segodnya (Russia Today) news group as Sputnik International speaks of the Kremlin’s intent to influence and manipulate opinion abroad. Russian state-owned or state-controlled media also serve to distribute disinformation, including outright lies, as best exemplified by fabricated reports of the crucifixion of a child by Ukrainian forces.
The Kremlin has also utilized cultural campaigns, exploiting religious sympathies amongst both fellow Orthodox populations, and religious conservatives in Europe and the USA, who align themselves with Putin’s message of traditional values and homophobia.
http://www.interpretermag.com/the-me...ure-and-money/
Long article about Kremlin trolls.
http://www.interpretermag.com/russia...ternet-trolls/
http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/?fa=57313Quote:
To speed up this process, the Kremlin has unleashed a carefully crafted and skillfully executed communications campaign to sway public opinion in key Western countries. Audiences around the world, but specifically in Europe, are being hit hard by a combination of internationally targeted propaganda and a locally fine-tuned communications support effort.
I received my first personal taste of this when I was targeted by the Kremlin’s now-famous army of online trolls last week. I had been invited to discuss the West’s relationship with Russia on one of Germany’s prominent political talk shows. A day before the live broadcast, the show’s lineup was announced on Twitter, and within minutes, the smear campaign started.
Scores of unknown and mostly unidentifiable people heaped scorn on me, mostly on my own Twitter account, about 50 of them within the first two hours alone. It was enormously flattering, but it was also creepy and disturbing.
I am not the first person to experience such a barrage, of course. But to me, this episode demonstrated several things.
A timely analysis from @STRATCOMCOE of #Russia's information campaign against #Ukraine
http://www.stratcomcoe.org/~/media/S...SKS_29_10.ashx …
pic.twitter.com/M4epNot8Nd
How does #Russia'n #propaganda octopus work and how to counter it. Interesting @Interpreter_Mag research
http://bit.ly/1ChXf2M
Fake ‘Ukrainian’ News Websites Run by Russian ‘Troll Army’ Offshoots
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/1...rmy-offshoots/ …
THE FIRST CASUALTY
DIGITAL DOUBLETHINK: PLAYING TRUTH OR DARE WITH PUTIN, ASSAD AND ISIS
BY CHRISTOPHER DICKEY, ANNA NEMTSOVA11.16.14
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...and-assad.html
TASS
http://itar-tass.com/en/russia/765446Quote:
Of course, I have heard about some prohibitive trends in our media. But I personally do not see any real prohibitive trends. According to western experts, western media is creating some parallel reality when covering the events in Ukraine,” Putin said, adding that western media outlets were just fulfilling a political order received from their respective governments.
“Perhaps, we have something like this in separate areas. Is it good or bad? If you ask me, it’s bad,” Putin told the ombudsmen.
If the press wants people to believe it, then it should give an objective and extensive coverage of events. “Naturally, everybody has to comment (on events) but in that case, authors should make it clear that it’s their personal point of view,” Putin concluded.
Putin's Goebbels comment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aiq9zLqfSjo
Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs hacked, huge amount of data supposedly including information on Russian involvement in Ukraine posted online:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?...NUc3J2U28#list
Article link here:
http://niebezpiecznik.pl/post/rosyjs...ji-na-ukraine/
EDIT: May have been premature in posting. So really just raw information that may or may not relate.
December 7, 2014 1:11 pm
Nato seeks weapons to counter Russia’s information war
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ad8db...#axzz3LIKe4iqU
kaur--here is another chart presenting the global Russia info war orgs and individuals that support it.
globalresearch.ca is part of Kremlin's desinformation network pic.twitter.com/NQuqrU69rc
And more----
How #Moscow manipulates Berlin:#Russia #propaganda now in #German.
Video→http://belsat.eu/en/articles/how-mos...da-now-german/ …
pic.twitter.com/7q6NahnQpC
And more---
Russia keeps detailed files on Ukrainian bloggers. This particular one refused an approach to work for them. Kudos.
pic.twitter.com/x77SowsmHs
And more---
Life of Bryan: How an RT Columnist Tries to Influence the Debate on Russia and Ukraine
http://www.interpretermag.com/life-o...a-and-ukraine/ …
And even more----
Our famous/notorious Russian actress is back pretending to be a local
http://youtu.be/YYDhTNEuVKs?t=51s …
pic.twitter.com/txITR7WyRb
Warfare Russian style: AGL firing from civilian car; 'press' reports nearby. Are they crazy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYNWEd3aH8Q … pic.twitter.com/evShavm7pL
A really great open source analysis on just how the Russians released the "fake Ukrainian jet shot down video/photo theory" in early Nov 2014 in Russian TV which was torn apart within two hours on the web.
Great example of how Russia drives their info war effort.
https://medium.com/@yurybarmin/revea...r-46c6cfd76de8
Leaked emails prove links between Western "pro-family" activists and Russian nationalists
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/...cts-to-russian …
#Russia’s sordid links with Europe’s far right
http://gu.com/p/4423p/tw
Partial infographic on Russia's alleged ties with far-right parties in Europe:
http://goo.gl/c33cRS
pic.twitter.com/EVafsTXRKF
Putin's Weapon In The Ukraine Propaganda War: Internet Trolls
http://onforb.es/1G9FNf8
Fake news today is fake history tomorrow. Find Top 75 fakes of false Russian media reports about Ukraine in one video
http://euromaidanpress.com/2014/12/0...-in-one-video/ …