... implementation requires years and decades. Moreover, the key result of public diplomacy is not material: It is a matter of winning hearts and minds among people and developing empathy. Quantitatively, it is very difficult to evaluate.
Oleg Shakirov:
“Russian Propaganda”: On Social Networks, in Eastern Europe, and Soon Everywhere
Third, since it lacks commercial viability, public diplomacy earns support primarily from research centers or political institutes, which frequently use human ties and professional ...
... key American think tanks, including RAND Corporation, extends to more general questions about the role of information in international relations. However, it poses a very practical question to Russia at the same time: what should Russia do about “Russian propaganda”?
Russian Social Media Influence
What is Propaganda…
The main idea that runs throughout the second chapter of the new report is consonant with a quotation from a recent
article in Vanity Fair
on the “Russian threat” to the U.S. 2018 ...
... 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 ... ... that this “reef” has a very long history.
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Pavel Sharikov:
Enemy.media: The Creation of Enemy Image
in Russian-American Relations
It is striking to see how relative information flows are is perceived in a similar fashion. In fact,...
... its very nature. It hardly can be a sort of indulgence for avoiding well-balanced, responsible reporting. In practice, it leads to a situation, where Western experts are talking about the cynicism, the danger and the aggressiveness of the Kremlin’s propaganda, while their Russian counterparts seem to be obsessed with what they call counterbalancing “the Western hegemony” in the media landscape, as indicated by discussions at the 2015 ASEEES Convention and the conference dedicated to RT’s 10
th
anniversary.
Moscow-based ...
... 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 of each other.
"Russian propaganda is Putin's sharpest weapon," "Russian propaganda has distorted the world's picture of Ukraine," says the
Application Call
for a course for young journalists, held in Germany with support of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs....
... International Relations (MGIMO-University), to discuss the country’s attempts at using soft power.
In the interview below, Kortunov and Lebedeva discuss the reasons why Russia struggles to improve its image abroad as well as the controversial role of propaganda in modern geopolitics.
Russia Direct: What are the major problems of Russian soft power?
Andrei Kortunov
: I would highlight three levels of problems as well as three distinct types of problems.
The first level is having an objective foundation for using soft power. In other ...
