... today taken the confrontation between Russia and the West. Ironically, people-to-people communication or “expert diplomacy” are supposed to improve 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 ...
The tragedy for Russia and the collective West is that they continue to fight the wars of the past against ... ... hostile content intentionally produced by professionals, the problem is that today’s media can hardly match the centralization criteria. Even for state-owned media the relationship... ... often much more aggressive than state-owned networks? Why are people eager to spread propaganda at their own free will without any coercion, producing a multiplier effect...
... in 2013-2014.
Given that the West and Russia repeatedly point fingers at each other and accuse each other of using media for propaganda purposes, the OSCE report is very relevant. As a result, the report generated its fair share of publicity in
some Russian media in February
.
In today’s highly charged geopolitical environment, “propaganda” has become a sort of a buzzword among academics, experts and media professionals. On Feb. 24, experts, officials and journalists discussed this problem once again at the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), a well-known Russian ...
... of the Russian Press.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Elena Alekseenkova:
Chaos and Play without Rules: On the Current
Crisis of Confidence in Trust in Relations
between Russia and the West
EU countries are preparing
a "strategy for countering Kremlin's propaganda", while also imposing limits on Russian journalists. This will narrow the space for media offering an opinion that differs from the EU’s official view on processes in Europe and further afield. This does little to boost understanding of the developments and may have a far-reaching impact in the societies’ reciprocal rejection ...
