next time you guys see something about "new modern russian bombers/fighters/rockets etc." (designed 30-40 years ago) consider info in this article before you belive in any word of the info
sry for bad translation but i used bing and i dont have time to check whole text for mistakes
ps. bold on text is mine
Will meet Europe of Russian (des)informational attack?
Ralitsa Kovacheva
Russia waged an aggressive dezinformacionna campaign against the European Union. Some call it openly hybrid or a propaganda war. Huge masses of russian speaking population in Ukraine, former Soviet republics outside the EU, as well as those within the Union, are directly exposed to the Russian propaganda. Moreover, it comes to people, most of whom do not speak any other language, and Russian media are their only source of information. In other Member States, where you can't rely on the direct influence of Russian or Russian language literary media, holds successful propaganda through "third countries", disguised as rusofilstvo, anti-European (anti-Western) or nationalistic pathos. Such is the case, but not only.
The journalist Georgi Gotev
recalls how Moscow had failed to mobilize public opinion against the shale gas (in Romania and Bulgarian) in support of the South stream gas pipeline (in Hungary, Serbia, Bulgarian, Italy, Austria), against European sanctions imposed on Russia (in Italy, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Cyprus, Greece) or against the Ukrainian Government determined by Moscow as a "fascist" (in Bulgarian, and Serbia). The sentiments are known to the Kremlin of prominent (and not-so-prominent) European politicians-nationalists – the leader of the French "national front" marine Le Pen even took a Russian loan to finance his party. Moscow holds the warm relationships with these parties, which works against the EU "from the inside". In Bulgarian is a well-known effect – we watched it most clearly in the face of Volen Siderov and his party, "attack", but also in the overall deployment of the strategy for cultural, spiritual and religious closeness with Russia as a counterpoint to the foreign kolonialistki, demoraliziraŝi, and antib″lgarski influences of the West.
The problem is serious, but the possibilities for a response are limited and contradictory. The EU is aware that it must oppose the Russian dezinformacionna campaign. Particularly active in this regard are the Baltic countries, where the influence of the Russian propaganda is most strongly. Russia invests huge resources in maintaining the influential media, for example, the international television network RT with the audience (in her own statements) from 700 million viewers in over 100 countries and the creation of new ones, like the Sputnik-online platform and radio services in various languages, predendiraŝa to provide "alternative" information and saying "from what they did not" established at the end of the lasta year in response to the "Western propaganda". According to time magazine,
by 2010 the annual budget of the RT is $ 300 million – for comparison, the budget of the
BBC World Service Group, that inclueds tv, radio and online channels is 376 million for 2014-15. In addition, Russia has built a lean and costly infrastructure (including a set of strategies, supporting points machine, an army of trolls and troll softwareas well as undercover structures in civil society) for the keeping of information warfare extensively described by Yolanta Darčevska by the Polish Institute of Eastern Studies (see
the article on Vladimir Shopov in the subject).
Russian State television broadcast propaganda in Goebbles' style and lie around the clock told time magazine cover m Edgars Rinkevič, Adviser to the Latvian Foreign Minister in January. At the same time, the four Foreign Ministers of Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania and the uk came up with a letter to High Representative for foreign and security policy Mogerini, in which Federica urge EU to respond to the Russian dezinformacionna campaign. Describe her as the dissemination of false and misleading information through a range of funding (State controlled televisions, Internet trolls, suspicious third parties). The goal is to discredit the EU to undermine support for the legitimate Governments in the region, to demoralize the local population, to disorientate the Western politicians and to undermine the concept of a free, independent, pluralistic media. In the letter the Russian informational campaign is defined as "a real threat to the security of the eastern borders of the EU."
In response, the EU must reinforce the presence of their positions and deconstructs the propaganda proactively, urge the four States. It offers a whole range of measures, including training of journalists, creating an online platform with available resources for media, enhanced exchanges of European shows and movies, the effective cooperation of the European media regulators in respect of infringements of the principle of impartiality, etc..
In fact, that the Baltic States dreaming is a European russian language tv which openly contradicts the Russian propaganda. The idea, however, is the least controversial – what's up with freedom of speech, with which Europe so be proud if the EU create its kontrapropagandna machine? Thesis, which Russia immediately put into circulation as part of the antievropejskiâ propaganda tools. Titles in this sense emerged these days and in the Bulgarian press ("the EU makes the Ministry of truth" in the "work"). But beyond the propaganda, the issues are present and are tough – we asked them after the attack against the "Charly Ebdo." I have, is it possible to question its values in order to respond to a reciprocal of the threat? Is it possible the truth instead of our making available, to make us weak? Where does freedom (of speech) and starts the security – the very acceptance that such a limit exists, also is not unique and is samopodrazbiraŝo.
This is the problem – that our own values, such as freedom of expression, pluralism, democracy is used against us, believes the Bulgarian mp Boris Stanimirov (Reformist block), Member of the Parliamentary Commission on foreign policy. Bulgarian and the other countries of the former Eastern bloc are more susceptible to Russian propaganda, as well as the Baltic States, which have Russian language literary communities – this is officially recognised in the EU, explained Darlington to the
Reduta. BG. Russian propaganda holds in any argument, on any of our disagreement, so as to turn it to their advantage, says mp and gives an example of media campaign to "mobilisation" of the army and allegations of "occupation" of the United States and NATO are Bulgarian for the deployment of a NATO battalion in the country (both claims were disproved, but conspiracy theories continue to flood the public space). According to Boris Darlington is good discussion at the EU level communication has passed at the level of foreign relations. It's not about freedom of speech, and for security and measures must be thinking in that order, he thinks. This is the first of this kind and scale challenge for United Europe since its creation and so finding the answer is so difficult. We have to look at the Russian propaganda as a time bomb – this is a psychological weapon, brainwashing the public consciousness, so we have to defend ourselves by having armed enemy – with proportionate measures, believes MEP. For example, to stop the broadcast of all Russian channels on EU territory or in the framework of sanctions against Russia to be penalized not only political parties and companies, and media.
In the EU, however, not ready for such extreme measures. That's why the decision of the European Council of 19 March was to instruct the HR Federica Mogerini to present an action plan for strategic communication, with the first step, establishment of a communications team.
Bulgarian participates in all working groups involved with the topic of the European level. However this happens far away from public attention, and in the current political agenda topic did not attend. Not observed and active attempts by the Government and Parliament to seek a solution. Naturally, no one wants to be accused of snatches of pluralism and freedom of speech. On top of everything, in the face of the party "attack" Russian propaganda has its official spokesman in Parliament and in public space, by Alpha tv. In the complete absence of self-regulation in the media sector, pristrastnoto, not one-sided, manipulative and downright false (des) information to be sanctioned or at least publicly condemned. The slipping of propaganda on the line antievropejsko and nationalist discourse, without display directly misses position makes her recognition more difficult, and its action even more effective. As a result, 33% of Bulgarians want the country to join the Eurasian rather than in the European Union (by Alpha research), which is disturbingly high rate, regardless of the pro-European majority.
Against this background, inevitably comes the question of the role of the media – even the EU is looking for a solution with a knee-jerk reaction in the provision of (more) media resources or creating pan-European media, despite abundant evidence that similar measures have not given desired results in the past. Because, in the end, the media decide what, how and in what way (with what sources) to reflect. Repeatedly was the habit of the Bulgarian media to use Russian information sources to reflect European themes, without having professional considerations (for example, to see a different perspective, to give the word to the other party in the dispute, etc.) and more without having to cull through the facts of the allegations, the guest and, ultimately, propaganda-moreis the topic you are reading in
"Of the vacuum". For comparison, in Estonia the opposite is the case. There the Government has finally, after years of debate, decided to set up a Russian channel of Estonian public television to start broadcasting in September this year. Arco Olesk, journalist and Director of the Communications Center on Science and inovaci University in Tallinn, told about the
Reduta. BGthe topic for the Russian propaganda and its influence in society is a hot topic in Estonia. Much discussed, although there is no decision yet to be banned Russian television channels. Recently, pravitelstvot has appointed a special officer responsible for psychological defense, whose role is to monitor public sentiment and to propose ways of counteracting that reduce the vulnerability of society from the Russian propaganda.
More importantly, however, is that the Estonian media are generally very aware of the threat from Russian propaganda and successfully neutralize action, thinks her Arco Olesk. The latest example is the experience of the Russian Sputnik media to establish Estonian service. When it becomes clear that the media is looking for collaborators in Estonia, many russian speaking journalists publicly declare that they will not accept the proposals, told Arco Olesk. Against this background, the Bulgarian media reality seem not to have who knows what forces – because of unclear ownership and financing of media and related (again in a vague way) political and economic infrastructure, with an equally obscure ownership and financing, but also because of the rapidly falling standards of quality, completely neglected ethical norms, the ineffective regulation and self-regulation of the absentee media. As wrote Vladimir shopov, live in "TROLandiâ", in which the public environment is so "pinched" that can generate fabrications and isterizira society. "and makes it more successfully. While waiting for "Brussels" to come up with something that won't help.
