{"id":594,"date":"2014-05-29T00:11:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T04:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/?p=594"},"modified":"2022-03-11T18:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T22:25:58","slug":"where-next-in-russias-propaganda-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2014\/05\/29\/where-next-in-russias-propaganda-offensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Where next in Russia’s propaganda offensive?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Moscow Times<\/em> article “Russia’s Propaganda War Will Backfire<\/a>,”\u00a0Mark Lawrence Schrad<\/a>, author of Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy and the Secret History of the Russian State<\/a>, argues that the Putin regime’s media offensive against the Maidan revolution and the interim Ukrainian government will backfire on Russian-Ukrainian relations for years to come.<\/p>\n

Schrad writes:<\/p>\n

“With all of\u00a0the Ukrainian candidates that could conceivably be labeled fascist receiving less than 3 percent of\u00a0the vote, dramatically less than far-right parties elsewhere in\u00a0Europe, Russia’s “Nazi Ukraine” narrative will be difficult to\u00a0sustain.<\/p>\n

“What is more, billionaire and\u00a0political independent Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s new president with 55 percent of\u00a0the vote, is hardly a\u00a0right-wing fascist.<\/p>\n

“Indeed, Poroshenko was one of\u00a0the founders of\u00a0the Party of\u00a0Regions, the\u00a0pro-Russian political party that brought Yanukovych to\u00a0power in\u00a0the first place. Having served in\u00a0both the\u00a0Yanukovych government and\u00a0the pro-Western Orange Revolution government of\u00a0Viktor Yushchenko, the\u00a0milquetoast Poroshenko is the\u00a0exact opposite of\u00a0the divisive nationalist required by\u00a0Russia’s media narrative.”<\/p>\n

Watching Putin’s strategy evolve (as it’s reflected in Russian state media) will be interesting.<\/p>\n

Others have argued that Russia’s support of its own ultra-nationalists, along with the entire “hybrid war” strategy — a mix of unofficial guerrilla-style on-the-ground war (with its highly trained “green men” and a motley crew of irregulars), all-out cyber\/propaganda war,\u00a0and\u00a0diplomatic and military mixed messages — will backfire in other ways as well. For instance, it may lead, in time, to Russia’s own regions wishing to separate from the center in Moscow, and to those same semi-criminal irregulars popping up in less convenient places in the future.<\/p>\n

Here are a few\u00a0other recent articles on the Russian media campaign and its results in southeast Ukraine:<\/p>\n

Shkandrij, “How Russian propaganda works through social media<\/a>“<\/p>\n

Gregory, “Inside Putin’s campaign of social media trolling and faked Ukrainian crimes<\/a>“<\/p>\n

Shekhovtsov, “Extremism in South-Eastern Ukraine<\/a>“<\/p>\n

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