The “Trump cards” of the Russian Propaganda and Disinformation Operations
- Autores: Sergey Sukhankin
- Localización: Notes internacionals CIDOB, ISSN-e 2013-4428, Nº. 176, 2017, págs. 1-6
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
At a time the vast bulk of negative sentiments and propagandist escapades were levelled against the US and its European allies, whereas Germany, France and countries of Southern Europe were either subjected to a very mild form of criticism or portrayed as “victims of American domination”.
The mass protests in Moscow and other cities in 2011 were construed by Moscow as the most despicable Western attempt to ignite the process of regime change in Russia following the templet of “colour revolutions”.
The notorious pro-Kremlin journalist, zealous anti-Semite, open xenophobe and homophobe Dmitry Kiselyov (deputy director of Russian state TV holding company VGTRK) became the living embodiment of anti- European propaganda.
The pillars of Russian trolling are identified as follows: 1) defence of Stalinism; 2) praising of personalities of Vladimir Putin, Sergey Shoygu as well as Russian Armed Forces; 3) aggressive militarism; 4) fascist-style anti-Semitism and xenophobia; 5) sacred-sanctity of the Chechen war; 6) loyalty to KGB/FSB and hatred toward the “fifth column”, “deserters” and independent journalists; 7) anti-Americanism and anti-Western sentiments; 8) Soviet nostalgia and rejection of perestroika; 9) blaming dissidents and liberals for Russophobia.
