Reporters explain in detail how propaganda convinces Russians “There is no alternative to Putin”
Experts met on Tuesday to discuss with the Helsinki Commission Russia’s extensive and effective propaganda campaign on Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Peter Pomerantsev, who was born in Kiev but worked for 10 years as a journalist in Russia, spoke about the President of Russia Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinHouse Oversight launches investigation into Credit Suisse’s ties to Russian oligarchs Biden’s “careless remark” about Putin is inciting the GOP Leon Panetta: “We all have a moral rage against Putin” MOREit plays an important role in guiding the propaganda machinery session.
“He is dependent on their feeling that, in the words of his own spin doctors, there is no alternative to Putin,” said Pomerantsev, who is now a fellow at the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, referring to the Russian people.
“And that’s why he does so much to master the information environment, emotions and perceptions at home. That’s why breaking the Iron Curtain of new knowledge is a challenge that is as much psychological as it is technical,” he added.
The American Russian journalist Fatima Tlis also spoke during the hearing about Russia’s different tactics in domestic and international groups.
“The Kremlin’s disinformation operations are coordinated. They use traditional media, social media platforms and cyber-attacks to bomb people inside and outside Russia with special messages, each designed for specific audiences,” Tlis said.
“In targeting the domestic Russian public, the Kremlin uses disinformation and propaganda designed for entertainment,” he added, noting that the propaganda “tells pure lies firmly and convincingly.”
“In targeting foreign countries, Russia uses well-designed, intelligently designed, and precisely targeted disinformation,” he also said, adding that Russian propaganda portrays the United States as “eternally super evil and a major target.”
After describing the situation in the Russian media, the experts offered solutions to provide the right information to the Russian public.
“We cannot have a fragmented approach in the face of a focused, coordinated and coordinated enemy. It is simply not enough,” Pomerantsev said, acknowledging that the solution must “link cooperation between governments, technology companies, the media and universities.”
“Needless to say, only Russians can and should change the political situation,” also said Russian journalist and opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza.
“In our country, that change is coming. And I think faster than you thought before February 24,” he added.
Practices forbid Russia state-run news channels and channels did not even regard Moscow’s attacks on Ukraine as an attack or a war. Instead, they have to call it a “special military operation” or they can face up to 15 years in prison.
But some, e.g. Marina Ovsyannikovawhich is the supplier of the popular Russian Channel One channel spoke nonetheless.
Earlier this month, Ovsyannikova kept a sign behind the news anchor that read “Stop the war. Don’t believe the propaganda. They’re lying to you here.”
As a result, the authorities fined him and arrested him.
Supplier later told CNN that some Russians have been “brainwashed” because of information provided in the country.
“State propaganda is shouted from every state television channel from morning to night,” he said at the time. “There is an information war.”