NATO Wales Summit: Who is Listening?
“Buy more guns” seems to be a point we’re hearing from military top brass recently, but more than this, explain to our publics why we want them. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon puts it more as a...
View ArticleRussia’s Information War Victory at Home—The Role of State Media
Source: The Public Diplomat Despite the Western sanctions and deteriorating economic situation in Russia, popular support for President Putin and his foreign policies has never been higher, with the...
View ArticleThe Enemy Within: Ukraine’s Competing Narratives
Credit: Palinchak Michael This week, Russian and Ukrainian media focused on Ukrainian Prime Minister Yatsenyuk’s statement rejecting Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov’s demand that Ukraine should...
View ArticleDid You Miss Crimea?
During the past week a major Ukrainian news site Ukrinform published 50 news articles related to the conflict in Ukraine. Only two of those mentioned Crimea, whereas the other 48 covered the events in...
View ArticleIs the Russian media losing faith in Putin?
Nobody expected Putin’s address to soften Russia’s stance towards the West, but Putin’s hardline autarkic rhetoric scared even his biggest supporters. Although the subject matter of the speech has been...
View ArticleDivide and Rule: Internal Disagreements among Ukraine’s Separatists
The Western media has been portraying Ukraine’s separatists as a homogenous and cohesive group. Such portrayal has led many in the West to perceive the separatists as an idealist group inspired by the...
View ArticleWhat’s the message in US lethal aid to Ukraine
The international media has been speculating as to whether Obama’s administration should change its foreign policy course and provide lethal military aid to Ukraine in light of the recent significant...
View ArticleMaskirovka – denial and deception in Ukraine
BBC Radio 4 recently attempted to explain the essence of Russia’s ‘maskirovka’ strategy – a strategy of war that can be roughly translated to a ‘little masquerade’, which is akin to Western notions of...
View ArticleMilitary Action – Peace Talks – Repeat
The recent Minsk-2 agreement was a unilateral victory for Putin’s administration. It has shown that even a poor bear (Russia) can hold its ground against a co-dependent golden eagle (Germany), a white...
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