Internetiniai musulmonų šaltiniai informacinių karų kontekste – „Kavkazcenter“ Lietuvoje atvejis
Muslim Internet Resources in the Context of Information Wars – The Case of “Kavkazcenter” in Lithuania

Summary/Abstract: With the so-called war on terror launched by the USA in 2001, a new era started in one of the fields of the propaganda war – the Internet. Ability to disseminate information to as wide as possible audience due to globality of the Internet has become a powerful mean of influence. Many Muslim politically engaged religiously motivated groups, who perceive themselves to be in the state of such war, create their own elaborate web-sites. “KavkazCenter” is just one of them. “KavkazCenter” declares itself to be a product of the Chechen Independent International Islamic Internet Agency, which was set up in 1999 in Grozny by the Chechen National Center for Strategic Research and Political Technologies. However, its content is somewhat problematic, as the site appears to have been solely a propaganda tool for the Chechen Jihadist group Riyadhu as-Salihin, led by the late Shamil Basayev, who often boasted about his organized bloody attacks, frequently against civilians. This articles deals with the epopee of the „KavkazCenter“ in Lithuania, which started when the Lithuanian State Security Department confiscated the server of the firm “Elneta”, which at that time hosted the site, thus shutting down its operations from Lithuania. Through discussion of the case the article evaluates how much Lithuanian government and general society was prepared to the whirlpool of the global information wars.

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