Rusiško informacinio karo bruožai
TRAITS OF THE RUSSIAN INFORMATION WARFARE

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the Russian theorists’ approach to information warfare, its applicability to regain the Soviet Union “lost territories”. Reviewed is the juridical background to consolidate the electronic media in the hands of the Russian government. The process of elimination alternative political opinions in Russia is reviewed. Discussed are the thoughts of Russian information warfare theorists about the media used to collect the areas considered as their own. The ways how the media can create the imaginary reality are examined. Russia's state-controlled information space overcomes Russian boundaries and enters the global information space. The information war is not a very new phenomenon. The current military affairs have been led by information war activities. Protests against the former Ukrainian president Viktor Janukovich started in late 2013 and concluded in the open revolt and overthrow of the existing regime. Discontent with such events, Russia brutally intervened in the internal Ukrainian affairs, occupied and annexed the Crimean peninsula, then provoked mutiny in estern Ukrainian regions. The war broke out, and the Russian media have been exploited to legitimize Kremlin’s and separatists actions. The purpose of the article is, by using analytical and comparative methods, to scrutinize the information war problematic in Russian’s works. Information space exploitation is a crucial Russian politics’ part. The consolidated and censored internal Russian media space is designed to consolidate society to support nationalistic and imperialistic Moscow ambitions and to prevent other than Kremlin ideas’ circulation. The information war is used to penetrate into the former Soviet Union republics’ media space, to form the media agenda, and to shape, now independent from Russia states societies’ views. Even more, Russia creates channels for non-Russian speakers to attract them to their side. The Russian media directly or by exploiting close relationships with Moscow business, construct the image of the favourable reality. The complicated social problems have led us to the fact that decision currently is made on the media supplied facts’ preferences. The perceptions of ideas is constructed in the information war twilight.

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