FORMER MEMBER OF PUTIN’S INNER CIRCLE: PEOPLE ARE NOT PSYCHOLOGICALLY PREPARED
Information warfare has been waged in Russia for years, and manipulation has affected millions of Russians, says Andrei Illarionov, a former adviser of President Vladimir Putin. Currently Illarionov works as a researcher in the Cato Institute. He resigned in 2005 and stated that Russia is an authoritarian and undemocratic country.
Illarionov has predicted Russia’s actions in Ukraine and reminds us that in modern information societies, information is a very affordable weapon. It’s cheap, effective and capable of spreading over the borders of countries.
– There is only one limit: language. But everyone understands pictures, irrespective of their mother tongue, says Illarionov. He gave a lecture in Tallinn last autumn and described how a small country can prepare for information warfare.
The Russian state media like RT and Sputnik, that now also prodeuces online news in Finnish, constantly publish disinformative photos and videos. In March, a massive image bank of a troll factory was revealed. It’s full of photo manipulations meant for distribution and slandering Western leaders or distributing propaganda in other ways.
According to Illarionov, the information warfare attacks of Russia are aggressive and cynical and people are not psychologically prepared for them. They use extremely strong words like “Nazi” and “fascist”, the use of which is avoided in the West.
Information warfare has been waged in Russia for years, and manipulation has affected millions of Russians, says Andrei Illarionov, a former adviser of President Vladimir Putin. Currently Illarionov works as a researcher in the Cato Institute. He resigned in 2005 and stated that Russia is an authoritarian and undemocratic country.
Illarionov has predicted Russia’s actions in Ukraine and reminds us that in modern information societies, information is a very affordable weapon. It’s cheap, effective and capable of spreading over the borders of countries.
– There is only one limit: language. But everyone understands pictures, irrespective of their mother tongue, says Illarionov. He gave a lecture in Tallinn last autumn and described how a small country can prepare for information warfare.
The Russian state media like RT and Sputnik, that now also prodeuces online news in Finnish, constantly publish disinformative photos and videos. In March, a massive image bank of a troll factory was revealed. It’s full of photo manipulations meant for distribution and slandering Western leaders or distributing propaganda in other ways.
According to Illarionov, the information warfare attacks of Russia are aggressive and cynical and people are not psychologically prepared for them. They use extremely strong words like “Nazi” and “fascist”, the use of which is avoided in the West.
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