Information warfare in Ukraine

Ukrainophobia and Anti-Ukrainian propaganda after the Orange revolution‘‘‘ - Since the collaps of USSR in 1991 Russian Federation was always jealous and had a specific attitude towards Ukrainian sovereignty. Before the economic collaps of 1998 and before ex-KGB officer Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin became a President of Russia on 1999 December 31 Russian-Ukrainian relationship was not perfect but based on mutual understanding. Just one year before the presidential elections in Ukraine, in 2003 confrontation showed up in the escalation of the conflict about Tuzla Island in the Strait of Kerch. After the events of Orange revolution in 2004 Russian politicians, public activists and leaders with full assistance of Russian and pro-Russian mass-media in Ukraine show up and distribute controversial information with an objective to influence the public opinion in Ukraine in conditions of information openness and democracy.

Russian and pro-Russian mass-media is actively enforcing the controversial ideas and disinformation related to the history, politics and cultural current and past of Ukraine trying to influence the interethnic, inter-religious relationship while provoking and encouraging the ideas of separatism, ethnic, religious and linguistic confrontation in Ukraine etc. while calling in question the right of Ukraine for certain territories etc.

The main purpose of this “information warfare” and black propaganda against Ukraine is destabilization of the public & political life in the country, formation of specific public opinion in order to provide assistance and backup to the anti-Ukrainian political parties, organizations and formations who usually advocate the chauvinistic and anti-state ideas based either on communist & Soviet or Russian imperial ideology. The main goal of this parties and formations is the advancement towards integration of Ukraine with Russia, while denying the right of Ukraine for sovereignty and independence.

See also

• Nataliya Vitrenko
• Konstantin Zatulin
• Mikhail Leontyev
• Vladimir Zhirinovsky - (as of October 2006), persona non grata in Ukraine

• Rus'-Ukrainian Union
• Russia-Ukraine gas dispute
• Crimean anti-NATO protests of 2006

External links

• [1] - Zhirinovsky and Zatulin Will Not Be Able to “Wash Their Boots” in the Black Sea
• [2] - Russia to revenge Ukraine
• [3] - Russian nationalists march in Kiev and Crimea
• [4] - Pro-Russian radicals publicly set a fire on Constitution of Ukraine
• [5] - Mayor of Moscow in Crimea: "We won't give away the city of Sevastopol"
• [6] - The separatist card
• [7] - Secretary of Donetsk City Council: Ukraine will have one official language - Russian, as Ukrainian is just good for jokes
• [8] - "Chief" Kremlin propagandist M.Leontiev about Ukraine: "You can call it even "shit", but anyway this is Russia"
• [9] - Russian MFA Information and Press Department Commentary Regarding the Discussion in the Ukrainian Press of the So Called Holodomor of 1932-1933
• [10] - Pro-Russian party initiates unofficial referendum on NATO in Crimea
• [11] - Mikhail Kamynin, the Spokesman of Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Answers Questions from RIA Novosti Regarding Humanitarian Rights of Russians Living in Ukraine and of Ukrainians Living in Russia
• [12] - Traditional Ukrainophobia in Russian political thought
• [13] - Russian public radiostation "Mayak" - "Ukraine - is it a myth or historical reality?"
• [14] - Anti-ukrainian protests in front of the Embassy of Ukraine in Moscow: «Restore Donetsk and Donbass as Russia! Thus get low prices for gas»
• [15] - MFA of Ukraine: Russian Mass-Media are full of anti-ukrainian substance.
• [16] - ex-Speaker of the Parliament of Ukraine V.Litvin: "There is an anti-ukrainian project"
• [17] - Russian newspaper "Moskovskiy Komsomolets" - " LIVE LAYING-OUT: There are several Ukraine's?"
• [18] - M.Leontiev in the air of Russian, state owned "First" TV channel: "...Russia has no chance to be a great world power without Ukraine."
• [19] - Russian, state owned "First" TV channel: "...who needs this Ukraine without Crimea or Sevastopol..."
• [20] - MFA warns some Russian bureaucracy against propaganda of separatism in Ukraine
• [21] - Russian newsportal claims there was no Holodomor: "Myth about Holodomor (Ukrainian famine 1932-1933) and manipulation of the public opinion."
• [22] - A.Zhukov member of the Russian parliament: "I'm sure Ukraine's absolute striving for independence will soon calm down"
• [23] - M.Smolin, CEO of Imperial Revival Fund: "Overcoming the "Ukrainism" and Russian society."
• [24] - Denial of Ukraine by Russian chauvinists: "Russian World and Ukrainian Myth"
• [25] - Russian Imperial Ukrainophobia: "Ukraine means -anti-Russia, Ukrainian - means anti-Russian.
• [26] - Russian information portal claims there is no Ukrainian language but a Russian-Polish dialect.

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