The author analyzes why the technologies employed in the “color revolutions” (the “Arab Spring”),... more The author analyzes why the technologies employed in the “color revolutions” (the “Arab Spring”), failed in Syria. The author examines the scenarios of “color revolutions” in Libya and Syria in detail. The justifications for military intervention in the Syrian conflict offered by Western politicians are discussed.Key words: Libya, Syria, color revolution, Arab Spring, conflict management, political modernization, psychological operations, information policy.В статье представлены результаты анализа возможных причин системного сбоя в реализации технологий цветных революций («арабской весны») в Сирии. Подробно исследуются основные различия сценариев цветных революций в Ливии и Сирии. Рассматриваются основные внешнеполитические поводы, создаваемые западными странами для оправдания внешнего военного вмешательства в сирийский конфликт
Aim. To reveal the essence, content, goals, objectives and methods of the special operation of th... more Aim. To reveal the essence, content, goals, objectives and methods of the special operation of the American special services related to the emergency landing of a Ryanair aircraft at the airport in Minsk, as a result of which the KGB of the Republic of Belarus detained oppositionists R. Protasevich and S. Sapega.Methodology. The study was carried out using the methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization and interpretation of the results.Results. It has been established that, in terms of its scheme and manner of execution, the “Ryanair case” is identical to the operation “Doping Scandal with WADA” carried out by the US intelligence agencies against the Russian Federation in 2015–2018. The goal of the Ryanair operation is the same as in the WADA scandal: make those who were repeatedly caught in a lie admit the allegations on all counts; the form of the operation is an operational experiment (provocation). Thus, the Ryanair operation is a combination of techniques, methods and trick...
Aim. To identify and classify the forms and methods of information war in the modern conflict in ... more Aim. To identify and classify the forms and methods of information war in the modern conflict in Ukraine (during the Special Military Operation).Methodology. The study was carried out using the methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization, and interpretation of the results.Results. The forms and methods of conducting information war in Ukraine during the Special Military Operation (strategic information operations, special propaganda, fake news, and operational games with the elites) are identified and classified. It has been revealed that the most prominent means of the information warfare is the special propaganda, the goals and methods of which have not changed since the Cold War; strategic information operations, which are operational combinations of foreign intelligence, in this conflict at the present stage are present only in the form of the so-called "Incident in Bucha". It has been established that fake news massively produced by the Ukrainian side and its Weste...
Introduction. The article presents a detailed analysis of scientific research of the last decade ... more Introduction. The article presents a detailed analysis of scientific research of the last decade in the field of ecology, economy and population of the planet. The object of research is modern universal society. The subject of the research is new values, ideology and communication promoted by the new philosophy of sustainable development. The purpose of the study is to analyze and forecast the development of mankind in the medium and long term (2050 and 2100).Materials and methods. The main analytical material is scientific reports that are in the public domain: People and the Planet of the Royal Society of London (2012), Come On! Capitalism, Short-Termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet of the Club of Rome (2018), COVID-19.The Great Reset of the Davos WEF 2020. The theses of these works are compared with each other and other studies in this field. The research is carried out by historical, comparative and analytical methods. Analytical data are extrapolated to obtain ...
The author analyses the western states’ conflict management techniques, which were applied to ste... more The author analyses the western states’ conflict management techniques, which were applied to steering (“controlled chaos”) color revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. The evidence is provided to demonstrate that the revolutionary events in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, and other Arab states were not spontaneous and were orchestrated by the external political power. The consequences of the Arab spring revolutions are assessed and the reconfiguration of the Middle Eastern politics is discussed.Key words: color revolution, Arab Spring, conflict management, political modernization, psychological operations, information policyВ статье представлены результаты анализа практики применения западными государствами современных технологий управления конфликтами («управляемого хаоса») в цветных революциях на Ближнем Востоке и в Северной Африке. Многочисленные признаки и следы применения указанных технологий позволяют утверждать, что революционные события в Тунисе, Египте, Ли...
Статья представляет собой рецензию на учебник профессора МГИМО МИД России А.И. Никитина “Междунар... more Статья представляет собой рецензию на учебник профессора МГИМО МИД России А.И. Никитина “Международные конфликты: вмешательство, миротворчество, урегулирование”. Цель работы – дать оценку учебнику, посвященному международным конфликтам, а также международной деятельности по их урегулированию и разрешению в разрезе современной практики миротворчества. Структуру учебника составляют три отдельных, имеющих самостоятельное учебно-методическое значение блока: теория международных конфликтов; миротворчество: нормативная база, формы и методы организации и проведения миротворческих операций; кейсы, т.е. анализ конкретных международных и региональных конфликтов, ранжированные по регионам. Синтез этих трех блоков и направлений и дает искомый синергетический эффект. Следует отметить, что автор представил широкой читательской аудитории книгу, выполненную на высоком системном и профессиональном уровне. Многочисленные факты, сведения и справочные данные, сопровождающие анализ конфликтов, делают книгу интересным не только для студенческой и аспирантской аудитории, но и для уже состоявшихся специалистов, имеющих опыт научно-исследовательской и практической работы в данной сфере.
Bulletin of the Moscow State Regional University, 2019
Настоящая статья посвящена кризису в Венесуэле. Проанализированы глобальный и региональный контек... more Настоящая статья посвящена кризису в Венесуэле. Проанализированы глобальный и региональный контексты подрывной деятельности США против боливарианского руководства. Впервые раскрыт механизм нового типа «цветной революции», применяемый против Венесуэлы. Выявлена схема, в соответствии с которой Вашингтон, активизировав свержение чавистов, добивается раскола среди них. Сделан вывод о необходимости коррекции российской политики в отношении Венесуэлы из-за высокого риска лишения власти чавистов. По заключению авторов, действия в отношении Венесуэлы следует координировать с Кубой, которая также крайне заинтересована в сохранении чавистов у власти.
Bulletin of the Moscow State Regional University, 2019
Настоящая статья посвящена кризису в Венесуэле. Проанализированы глобальный и региональный контек... more Настоящая статья посвящена кризису в Венесуэле. Проанализированы глобальный и региональный контексты подрывной деятельности США против боливарианского руководства. Впервые раскрыт механизм нового типа «цветной революции», применяемый против Венесуэлы. Выявлена схема, в соответствии с которой Вашингтон, активизировав свержение чавистов, добивается раскола среди них. Сделан вывод о необходимости коррекции российской политики в отношении Венесуэлы из-за высокого риска лишения власти чавистов. По заключению авторов, действия в отношении Венесуэлы следует координировать с Кубой, которая также крайне заинтересована в сохранении чавистов у власти.
Aim. The aim of this work is to determine the mechanisms of the destructive influence of criminal... more Aim. The aim of this work is to determine the mechanisms of the destructive influence of criminal organizations on the Brazilian State and the acceleration of their evolution under the influence of the narco-industry. Methodology. The study was conducted on the example of Brazilian criminal organizations and using The Trilateral Continuum "crime-terrorism-state". The methods of systemic and comparative analysis, synthesis, generalization and interpretation of the results were used. The mechanism of the destructive influence of criminal communities on the Brazilian State is revealed, The Trilateral Continuum is improved, and an explanation is given for the effect of the acceleration of the evolution of criminal communities under the influence of the narco-industry. Research implications. The results of the study significantly expand the understanding of the influence of criminal communities on the state, and also reveal the interdependence of the crisis of the capitalist sy...
Introduction. One of the key tendencies of modern international development is the growing import... more Introduction. One of the key tendencies of modern international development is the growing importance of the “factor of power”. In this context, the initiated long process of the potential growth of the armed forces of the countries participating in NATO, which is of particular importance in the growth of new unconventional threats (one of the triggers of the Alliance transformation including through the strengthening of national units has become a global pandemic) is important from scientific and practical points of view. Methods and materials. The theoretical and methodological basis of the research is the theory of building armed forces. The basic sources for the analysis are official documents of military departments, as well as materials from related information centers, which reveal the parameters of the prospective appearance of the armed forces of the countries under study. NATO’s statistical and summit reports also occupy a special place. Analysis. The goal of the article i...
World of Media. Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies, 2021
This article examines the nature of the origin, definitions and functional principles of so-calle... more This article examines the nature of the origin, definitions and functional principles of so-called fake news – reports that are deliberately false in nature which can create a stir in society around a non-existent informational case born ofthesamenews source.Incombinationwithviraltechnologiesandmechanisms of distribution in the media and social networks, fake news in modern political campaigns is becoming a dangerous tool for influencing mass consciousness of societies. The main task of fake news in modern political campaigns and processes is interception of the political agenda, with its subsequent closure to the news feed generated by the fake news itself, as well as creation of general excitement around the given news story. This present article seeks to review and analyse the academic debates on the what (definition), how (operationalization) and why (motivation) questions pertaining to the fake news phenomena. These aspects are then combined to generate the beginnings of creati...
November 20, 2020, at the Lomonosov Moscow State University the all-Russian scientific conference... more November 20, 2020, at the Lomonosov Moscow State University the all-Russian scientific conference with international participation «State policy in the context of global challenges of modernity» was held, timed to the 10th anniversary of the Department of State Policy, Faculty of Political Science, Moscow University. Within the framework of the conference, which was attended by scientists and specialists from Russia, the USA, Bulgaria and Kazakhstan, a plenary session and several section meetings devoted to the problems of modern public policy were held. This review paper presents the key materials presented in the reports and determined the course and content of the scientific and expert discussion within the section «New subjects and technologies of state policy: current practice and prospects», in which scientists, specialists and experts from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow State Regional University, Russian State University for the Humanities, National Research To...
Despite a significant change in the balance of instruments on the platform of "hybrid wars&q... more Despite a significant change in the balance of instruments on the platform of "hybrid wars", the information impact caused by global transformations remains its core and the most mature, tested element of the system as a whole. The methods of classical propaganda have always played an essential role within the framework of the toolkit for informational influence. Even now, when the possibilities of information and political manipulations are used to a greater extent, propaganda influence remains an important tool for managing global and subglobal political and information processes. But the new political and technological environment imposes significant other requirements on the models and formatting support of propaganda activities, non-compliance with which has already led to a significant weakening of the status of propaganda, including the state one in the system of interstate competition and competition between states and non-state (corporate and social) structures. T...
Abstract The modern world with constantly emerging international contradictions and military conf... more Abstract The modern world with constantly emerging international contradictions and military conflicts attempts to react adequately to existing challenges. To this end, private military companies (PMCs) have become increasingly in demand by states, multinational corporations, and international organizations. Employees of these companies differ fundamentally from classical mercenaries: PMCs as corporate entities contract legally hired parties. Interaction with participants in international relations allows private military companies to act independently; however, the documents required to regulate their activities are absent, entailing extremely negative consequences. This article gives a history of the PMC phenomenon, considers the current situation involving their participation in armed conflicts, and analyzes the existing international legal documents, which may become prototypes of the legislative framework for PMCs.
Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Political, Sociological and Economic sciences, 2020
The research featured the political role of the Nord Stream 2 project in Russian foreign policy a... more The research featured the political role of the Nord Stream 2 project in Russian foreign policy and in building constructive relations with Russia's partners in the European Union. The paper describes the strategy, tactics, forms, and methods involved in the cross-border pipeline project implemented by Russia and its foreign partners. The focus is on the political relations between the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russian state-owned corporations, foreign governments, and foreign multinational corporations, i.e. the negotiations within the international consortium. The research objective was to identify the role of cross-border pipeline projects in Russian foreign policy in Europe. The methodological basis included system and comparative-political approaches, as well as the methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, and deduction. The methods of political comparativistics revealed how the competing parties were able to affect the negotiations and implementation of Nord S...
The author analyzes why the technologies employed in the “color revolutions” (the “Arab Spring”),... more The author analyzes why the technologies employed in the “color revolutions” (the “Arab Spring”), failed in Syria. The author examines the scenarios of “color revolutions” in Libya and Syria in detail. The justifications for military intervention in the Syrian conflict offered by Western politicians are discussed.Key words: Libya, Syria, color revolution, Arab Spring, conflict management, political modernization, psychological operations, information policy.В статье представлены результаты анализа возможных причин системного сбоя в реализации технологий цветных революций («арабской весны») в Сирии. Подробно исследуются основные различия сценариев цветных революций в Ливии и Сирии. Рассматриваются основные внешнеполитические поводы, создаваемые западными странами для оправдания внешнего военного вмешательства в сирийский конфликт
Aim. To reveal the essence, content, goals, objectives and methods of the special operation of th... more Aim. To reveal the essence, content, goals, objectives and methods of the special operation of the American special services related to the emergency landing of a Ryanair aircraft at the airport in Minsk, as a result of which the KGB of the Republic of Belarus detained oppositionists R. Protasevich and S. Sapega.Methodology. The study was carried out using the methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization and interpretation of the results.Results. It has been established that, in terms of its scheme and manner of execution, the “Ryanair case” is identical to the operation “Doping Scandal with WADA” carried out by the US intelligence agencies against the Russian Federation in 2015–2018. The goal of the Ryanair operation is the same as in the WADA scandal: make those who were repeatedly caught in a lie admit the allegations on all counts; the form of the operation is an operational experiment (provocation). Thus, the Ryanair operation is a combination of techniques, methods and trick...
Aim. To identify and classify the forms and methods of information war in the modern conflict in ... more Aim. To identify and classify the forms and methods of information war in the modern conflict in Ukraine (during the Special Military Operation).Methodology. The study was carried out using the methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization, and interpretation of the results.Results. The forms and methods of conducting information war in Ukraine during the Special Military Operation (strategic information operations, special propaganda, fake news, and operational games with the elites) are identified and classified. It has been revealed that the most prominent means of the information warfare is the special propaganda, the goals and methods of which have not changed since the Cold War; strategic information operations, which are operational combinations of foreign intelligence, in this conflict at the present stage are present only in the form of the so-called "Incident in Bucha". It has been established that fake news massively produced by the Ukrainian side and its Weste...
Introduction. The article presents a detailed analysis of scientific research of the last decade ... more Introduction. The article presents a detailed analysis of scientific research of the last decade in the field of ecology, economy and population of the planet. The object of research is modern universal society. The subject of the research is new values, ideology and communication promoted by the new philosophy of sustainable development. The purpose of the study is to analyze and forecast the development of mankind in the medium and long term (2050 and 2100).Materials and methods. The main analytical material is scientific reports that are in the public domain: People and the Planet of the Royal Society of London (2012), Come On! Capitalism, Short-Termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet of the Club of Rome (2018), COVID-19.The Great Reset of the Davos WEF 2020. The theses of these works are compared with each other and other studies in this field. The research is carried out by historical, comparative and analytical methods. Analytical data are extrapolated to obtain ...
The author analyses the western states’ conflict management techniques, which were applied to ste... more The author analyses the western states’ conflict management techniques, which were applied to steering (“controlled chaos”) color revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. The evidence is provided to demonstrate that the revolutionary events in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, and other Arab states were not spontaneous and were orchestrated by the external political power. The consequences of the Arab spring revolutions are assessed and the reconfiguration of the Middle Eastern politics is discussed.Key words: color revolution, Arab Spring, conflict management, political modernization, psychological operations, information policyВ статье представлены результаты анализа практики применения западными государствами современных технологий управления конфликтами («управляемого хаоса») в цветных революциях на Ближнем Востоке и в Северной Африке. Многочисленные признаки и следы применения указанных технологий позволяют утверждать, что революционные события в Тунисе, Египте, Ли...
Статья представляет собой рецензию на учебник профессора МГИМО МИД России А.И. Никитина “Междунар... more Статья представляет собой рецензию на учебник профессора МГИМО МИД России А.И. Никитина “Международные конфликты: вмешательство, миротворчество, урегулирование”. Цель работы – дать оценку учебнику, посвященному международным конфликтам, а также международной деятельности по их урегулированию и разрешению в разрезе современной практики миротворчества. Структуру учебника составляют три отдельных, имеющих самостоятельное учебно-методическое значение блока: теория международных конфликтов; миротворчество: нормативная база, формы и методы организации и проведения миротворческих операций; кейсы, т.е. анализ конкретных международных и региональных конфликтов, ранжированные по регионам. Синтез этих трех блоков и направлений и дает искомый синергетический эффект. Следует отметить, что автор представил широкой читательской аудитории книгу, выполненную на высоком системном и профессиональном уровне. Многочисленные факты, сведения и справочные данные, сопровождающие анализ конфликтов, делают книгу интересным не только для студенческой и аспирантской аудитории, но и для уже состоявшихся специалистов, имеющих опыт научно-исследовательской и практической работы в данной сфере.
Bulletin of the Moscow State Regional University, 2019
Настоящая статья посвящена кризису в Венесуэле. Проанализированы глобальный и региональный контек... more Настоящая статья посвящена кризису в Венесуэле. Проанализированы глобальный и региональный контексты подрывной деятельности США против боливарианского руководства. Впервые раскрыт механизм нового типа «цветной революции», применяемый против Венесуэлы. Выявлена схема, в соответствии с которой Вашингтон, активизировав свержение чавистов, добивается раскола среди них. Сделан вывод о необходимости коррекции российской политики в отношении Венесуэлы из-за высокого риска лишения власти чавистов. По заключению авторов, действия в отношении Венесуэлы следует координировать с Кубой, которая также крайне заинтересована в сохранении чавистов у власти.
Bulletin of the Moscow State Regional University, 2019
Настоящая статья посвящена кризису в Венесуэле. Проанализированы глобальный и региональный контек... more Настоящая статья посвящена кризису в Венесуэле. Проанализированы глобальный и региональный контексты подрывной деятельности США против боливарианского руководства. Впервые раскрыт механизм нового типа «цветной революции», применяемый против Венесуэлы. Выявлена схема, в соответствии с которой Вашингтон, активизировав свержение чавистов, добивается раскола среди них. Сделан вывод о необходимости коррекции российской политики в отношении Венесуэлы из-за высокого риска лишения власти чавистов. По заключению авторов, действия в отношении Венесуэлы следует координировать с Кубой, которая также крайне заинтересована в сохранении чавистов у власти.
Aim. The aim of this work is to determine the mechanisms of the destructive influence of criminal... more Aim. The aim of this work is to determine the mechanisms of the destructive influence of criminal organizations on the Brazilian State and the acceleration of their evolution under the influence of the narco-industry. Methodology. The study was conducted on the example of Brazilian criminal organizations and using The Trilateral Continuum "crime-terrorism-state". The methods of systemic and comparative analysis, synthesis, generalization and interpretation of the results were used. The mechanism of the destructive influence of criminal communities on the Brazilian State is revealed, The Trilateral Continuum is improved, and an explanation is given for the effect of the acceleration of the evolution of criminal communities under the influence of the narco-industry. Research implications. The results of the study significantly expand the understanding of the influence of criminal communities on the state, and also reveal the interdependence of the crisis of the capitalist sy...
Introduction. One of the key tendencies of modern international development is the growing import... more Introduction. One of the key tendencies of modern international development is the growing importance of the “factor of power”. In this context, the initiated long process of the potential growth of the armed forces of the countries participating in NATO, which is of particular importance in the growth of new unconventional threats (one of the triggers of the Alliance transformation including through the strengthening of national units has become a global pandemic) is important from scientific and practical points of view. Methods and materials. The theoretical and methodological basis of the research is the theory of building armed forces. The basic sources for the analysis are official documents of military departments, as well as materials from related information centers, which reveal the parameters of the prospective appearance of the armed forces of the countries under study. NATO’s statistical and summit reports also occupy a special place. Analysis. The goal of the article i...
World of Media. Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies, 2021
This article examines the nature of the origin, definitions and functional principles of so-calle... more This article examines the nature of the origin, definitions and functional principles of so-called fake news – reports that are deliberately false in nature which can create a stir in society around a non-existent informational case born ofthesamenews source.Incombinationwithviraltechnologiesandmechanisms of distribution in the media and social networks, fake news in modern political campaigns is becoming a dangerous tool for influencing mass consciousness of societies. The main task of fake news in modern political campaigns and processes is interception of the political agenda, with its subsequent closure to the news feed generated by the fake news itself, as well as creation of general excitement around the given news story. This present article seeks to review and analyse the academic debates on the what (definition), how (operationalization) and why (motivation) questions pertaining to the fake news phenomena. These aspects are then combined to generate the beginnings of creati...
November 20, 2020, at the Lomonosov Moscow State University the all-Russian scientific conference... more November 20, 2020, at the Lomonosov Moscow State University the all-Russian scientific conference with international participation «State policy in the context of global challenges of modernity» was held, timed to the 10th anniversary of the Department of State Policy, Faculty of Political Science, Moscow University. Within the framework of the conference, which was attended by scientists and specialists from Russia, the USA, Bulgaria and Kazakhstan, a plenary session and several section meetings devoted to the problems of modern public policy were held. This review paper presents the key materials presented in the reports and determined the course and content of the scientific and expert discussion within the section «New subjects and technologies of state policy: current practice and prospects», in which scientists, specialists and experts from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow State Regional University, Russian State University for the Humanities, National Research To...
Despite a significant change in the balance of instruments on the platform of "hybrid wars&q... more Despite a significant change in the balance of instruments on the platform of "hybrid wars", the information impact caused by global transformations remains its core and the most mature, tested element of the system as a whole. The methods of classical propaganda have always played an essential role within the framework of the toolkit for informational influence. Even now, when the possibilities of information and political manipulations are used to a greater extent, propaganda influence remains an important tool for managing global and subglobal political and information processes. But the new political and technological environment imposes significant other requirements on the models and formatting support of propaganda activities, non-compliance with which has already led to a significant weakening of the status of propaganda, including the state one in the system of interstate competition and competition between states and non-state (corporate and social) structures. T...
Abstract The modern world with constantly emerging international contradictions and military conf... more Abstract The modern world with constantly emerging international contradictions and military conflicts attempts to react adequately to existing challenges. To this end, private military companies (PMCs) have become increasingly in demand by states, multinational corporations, and international organizations. Employees of these companies differ fundamentally from classical mercenaries: PMCs as corporate entities contract legally hired parties. Interaction with participants in international relations allows private military companies to act independently; however, the documents required to regulate their activities are absent, entailing extremely negative consequences. This article gives a history of the PMC phenomenon, considers the current situation involving their participation in armed conflicts, and analyzes the existing international legal documents, which may become prototypes of the legislative framework for PMCs.
Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Political, Sociological and Economic sciences, 2020
The research featured the political role of the Nord Stream 2 project in Russian foreign policy a... more The research featured the political role of the Nord Stream 2 project in Russian foreign policy and in building constructive relations with Russia's partners in the European Union. The paper describes the strategy, tactics, forms, and methods involved in the cross-border pipeline project implemented by Russia and its foreign partners. The focus is on the political relations between the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russian state-owned corporations, foreign governments, and foreign multinational corporations, i.e. the negotiations within the international consortium. The research objective was to identify the role of cross-border pipeline projects in Russian foreign policy in Europe. The methodological basis included system and comparative-political approaches, as well as the methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, and deduction. The methods of political comparativistics revealed how the competing parties were able to affect the negotiations and implementation of Nord S...
Modern-Day Information Warfare and Hybrid War Operations, 2021
Objective. A study of the latest practices (forms, methods, tools, and technologies) of informati... more Objective. A study of the latest practices (forms, methods, tools, and technologies) of information operations, specificities of their hybridization, as well as the newest forms and methods of counteroperation. Procedures and Methods. The increasing militarization of the information space leads to changes in the views toward forceful methods of changing the geopolitical balance. This, in turn, results in genuine technological revolution in waging infowars, hybrid wars, and trade wars. A study of this kind of complex and elaborate schemes requires the application of a methodology of system analysis of identification and algorithmization of all the ‘chains’ of indoctrination in the new type of information operations. Results. This article provides a detailed description of the main forms, schemes, elements of modern-day information operations dating back to Panama Papers 2016; using the examples of New York Times publications (24.05.2019) and Wall Street Journal publications (3.06.2019) we demonstrate the types of information fake news stories and what they are intended for; using the examples of specific information operations (2020 Prague Incident with ricin, 2020 Susan Rice on the Russian guidelines for plotting coup d’états, the Skripals Poisoning Case (2018-2020, Venezuelan Precedent and Operation Gideon 2019-2020) we reveal how specifically fake news stories are used in modern-day tactical (operational wargames) and strategic operations of information wars; the strategic directions and key strategies for waging information wars against Russia are identified. Using the examples of the Russian practice of conducting information counteroperations (the Cabello Case 2019, Skripal Readings 2019, Searching for the Russian Mole in CIA 2019 (operational wargame with R.C. O’Brien, etc.) the latest forms and methods of setting up baffling of information operations conducted by foreign states and operational warfare of foreign intelligence services are revealed. Theoretical and Practical Relevance. Information about the latest forms and methods of plotting and waging information operations may be used by government agencies responsible for setting up systemic interdiction of information aggression of foreign states, and it may also be useful to political scientists, and experts engaged in countering destructive political technologies.
Hazard: fake news seizes the minds and will of people before official authorities have time to re... more Hazard: fake news seizes the minds and will of people before official authorities have time to react to it
On March 26, 2020 the US authorities officially charged the President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro... more On March 26, 2020 the US authorities officially charged the President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro, Chairman of the National Constitutional Assembly Diosdado Cabello, former military intelligence chief (2004-2008) General Hugo Carbajal, as well as twelve high-ranking Venezuelan government officials and military commanders with involvement in terrorism, narco-trafficking activities (international drug trafficking) and corruption. The US Attorney General William Barr personally announced it on 26.03.2020. In his statement, he also noted “we expect that finally these charged offenders would end up in custody; we plan to study all options for [their] confinement” .....
How the US are Trying to Capture Venezuelan Drug Terrorists That Work for the United States of Am... more How the US are Trying to Capture Venezuelan Drug Terrorists That Work for the United States of America There is a rule in crime detection: While investigating any crime the most important thing is not to close in on oneself. I.e. if you are an operational officer of police or special services and you investigate an incident you cannot let it so happen that the findings show that the perpetrators are actually backed by your own spy network (and yourself, as an operative) that you are in charge of. This rule may be applied to the current policy of the President of United States Donald Trump in regard to Venezuela and its senior leaders – the country’s president Nicolas Maduro, Chairman of the National Constitutional Assembly Diosdado Cabello, former head of intelligence Hugo Carbajal, and others. By deploying against the leaders of Venezuela its ‘international counter-drug operation’ and by offering a USD 15 million reward for the heads of Maduro and Cabello, Trump risks to finally close in on his own associates – Pompeo, Claver-Carone, Biden, and even O’Brien, who are possibly to a varying degree indirectly accessorial to drug transit from Colombia to the US southern states – via Venezuela, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico (with the support of partners of the American senior officials from ‘Sinaloa’), as well as to find out that the military campaign aiming to topple the Maduro regime, that he’s being relentlessly nudged to, is merely a gang warfare with the purpose of ousting competitors from the market of cocaine financed by Mexican drug cartels.
At the end of August 2019 the United States was in the epicenter of a large scale international s... more At the end of August 2019 the United States was in the epicenter of a large scale international scandal. The cause of the scandal was failure of a covert operation of the American intelligence service which aimed to ensure penetration of its secret agents in the inner circle of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro (with the purpose of his subsequent ousting from the presidential post). As a result of the unexpected panic which Bogota CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) station contract-ed, which had been followed by Langley, the inner circle of the President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro ex-posed the biggest CIA influence agent in Venezuela – Diosdado Cabello, former Vice President of Venezuela, Chairman of the National Constitutional Assembly of the country, who became a secret agent of CIA opera-tives supposedly in June of this year.
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operations, specificities of their hybridization, as well as the newest forms and methods of
counteroperation.
Procedures and Methods. The increasing militarization of the information space leads to changes
in the views toward forceful methods of changing the geopolitical balance. This, in turn, results in
genuine technological revolution in waging infowars, hybrid wars, and trade wars. A study of this
kind of complex and elaborate schemes requires the application of a methodology of system
analysis of identification and algorithmization of all the ‘chains’ of indoctrination in the new type
of information operations.
Results. This article provides a detailed description of the main forms, schemes, elements of
modern-day information operations dating back to Panama Papers 2016; using the examples of
New York Times publications (24.05.2019) and Wall Street Journal publications (3.06.2019) we
demonstrate the types of information fake news stories and what they are intended for; using the
examples of specific information operations (2020 Prague Incident with ricin, 2020 Susan Rice on
the Russian guidelines for plotting coup d’états, the Skripals Poisoning Case (2018-2020,
Venezuelan Precedent and Operation Gideon 2019-2020) we reveal how specifically fake news
stories are used in modern-day tactical (operational wargames) and strategic operations of
information wars; the strategic directions and key strategies for waging information wars against
Russia are identified. Using the examples of the Russian practice of conducting information
counteroperations (the Cabello Case 2019, Skripal Readings 2019, Searching for the Russian
Mole in CIA 2019 (operational wargame with R.C. O’Brien, etc.) the latest forms and methods of
setting up baffling of information operations conducted by foreign states and operational warfare
of foreign intelligence services are revealed.
Theoretical and Practical Relevance. Information about the latest forms and methods of plotting
and waging information operations may be used by government agencies responsible for setting
up systemic interdiction of information aggression of foreign states, and it may also be useful to
political scientists, and experts engaged in countering destructive political technologies.
There is a rule in crime detection: While investigating any crime the most important thing is not to close in on oneself. I.e. if you are an operational officer of police or special services and you investigate an incident you cannot let it so happen that the findings show that the perpetrators are actually backed by your own spy network (and yourself, as an operative) that you are in charge of. This rule may be applied to the current policy of the President of United States Donald Trump in regard to Venezuela and its senior leaders – the country’s president Nicolas Maduro, Chairman of the National Constitutional Assembly Diosdado Cabello, former head of intelligence Hugo Carbajal, and others. By deploying against the leaders of Venezuela its ‘international counter-drug operation’ and by offering a USD 15 million reward for the heads of Maduro and Cabello, Trump risks to finally close in on his own associates – Pompeo, Claver-Carone, Biden, and even O’Brien, who are possibly to a varying degree indirectly accessorial to drug transit from Colombia to the US southern states – via Venezuela, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico (with the support of partners of the American senior officials from ‘Sinaloa’), as well as to find out that the military campaign aiming to topple the Maduro regime, that he’s being relentlessly nudged to, is merely a gang warfare with the purpose of ousting competitors from the market of cocaine financed by Mexican drug cartels.
As a result of the unexpected panic which Bogota CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) station contract-ed, which had been followed by Langley, the inner circle of the President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro ex-posed the biggest CIA influence agent in Venezuela – Diosdado Cabello, former Vice President of Venezuela, Chairman of the National Constitutional Assembly of the country, who became a secret agent of CIA opera-tives supposedly in June of this year.