Book highlight from “Understanding Contemporary Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism: The Post-Soviet Cossack Revival and Ukraine’s National Security” by Dr Olexander Hryb. Part 1 of the highlight introduced the concept of Eurasianism. Part 2 focuses on Putin’s statements of his civic nationalism. If you continue visiting our Blog Page you’ll be able to read further parts […]
Ethnogeopolitics of Putin’s Eurasianism
Book highlight from “Understanding Contemporary Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism: The Post-Soviet Cossack Revival and Ukraine’s National Security” by Dr Olexander Hryb. British-Ukrainian Aid launched a new programme of webinars dedicated to Professor Umland’s book series – “Ukrainian Voices”. You can watch an online presentation of the first volume of the series – Ukraine’s Maidan, Russia’s […]
Is Russian Information Warfare Counter-Productive?
Section 8 and Conclusions from “Old Wine in a New Bottle: Russia’s Modernization of Traditional Soviet Information Warfare and Active Policies Against Ukraine and Ukrainians”. by Taras Kuzio, the Department of Political Science, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine Those watching Russian TV might be surprised to find that it often focuses more […]
Distracting Blame from Russia
Section 7 from “Old Wine in a New Bottle: Russia’s Modernization of Traditional Soviet Information Warfare and Active Policies Against Ukraine and Ukrainians”. by Taras Kuzio, the Department of Political Science, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine In the year prior to the Azov crisis, Russian media had been claiming Ukraine was being […]
Belittling Reforms and Democratization since the Euromaidan
Section 6 from “Old Wine in a New Bottle: Russia’s Modernization of Traditional Soviet Information Warfare and Active Policies Against Ukraine and Ukrainians”. by Taras Kuzio, the Department of Political Science, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine Russian information warfare has targeted five areas since the Euromaidan Revolution: (1) Ukraine is unable to […]
‘Belittle, Ridicule, and Dehumanize’
Section 5 from “Old Wine in a New Bottle: Russia’s Modernization of Traditional Soviet Information Warfare and Active Policies Against Ukraine and Ukrainians”. by Taras Kuzio, the Department of Political Science, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine The EU Disinformation Review describes Russia’s information warfare against Ukraine as ‘Belittle, Ridicule, and Dehumanize’. The […]
The Recurrent Themes in Russian Information Warfare on Ukraine and Ukrainians
Section 4 from “Old Wine in a New Bottle: Russia’s Modernization of Traditional Soviet Information Warfare and Active Policies Against Ukraine and Ukrainians”. by Taras Kuzio, the Department of Political Science, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine Russian information warfare has repeatedly promoted the view of Ukraine as an artificial and failed state […]
The Great Patriotic War
Section 3 from “Old Wine in a New Bottle: Russia’s Modernization of Traditional Soviet Information Warfare and Active Policies Against Ukraine and Ukrainians”. by Taras Kuzio, the Department of Political Science, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine Putin began to re-Sovietize Russia before the 2004 Orange Revolution.47 This could be clearly seen in […]
Great Power Nationalism
Section 2 from “Old Wine in a New Bottle: Russia’s Modernization of Traditional Soviet Information Warfare and Active Policies Against Ukraine and Ukrainians”. by Taras Kuzio, the Department of Political Science, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine Putin’s adoption of Tsarist era Russian great power nationalism was a gradual process from 2006–2007 onwards […]
Soviet origins of Russian information warfare
Section 1 from “Old Wine in a New Bottle: Russia’s Modernization of Traditional Soviet Information Warfare and Active Policies Against Ukraine and Ukrainians”. Taras Kuzio, the Department of Political Science, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine Russian President Putin has not invented anything new, but he has used modern technology and social media […]