For a full introduction into the topic, see wikipedia Propaganda in Russia
Russian hate speech (dehumanizing people)
Compilation of statements from Russian main TV channels. 10 minutes of hate and genocidal language.
The dehumanizing of Ukrainians has been ongoing at least since the revolution of dignity in 2014 (Euromaidan).
Individual statemens of Russian propaganda world
Meduza reports: ‘The Russian world cannot be contained by state borders’
Russian World. Have you heard about it?
Where have you been for 8 years? (in russian, by DW)
7 minutes of dehumanization – December 2023
Mikhail Zygar, former lead journalist from Rain TV, is monitoring Russian media from Berlin.
I find his reports touching and insightful.
- Putin’s parralel worlds (in German here)
- How Putin Turned Into the Hero Of the Global South
- Putin says he does not have any claims to Ukraine, including Crimea
- Kremlin Patriarch Kirill Blesses Deaths of Russian soldiers in Ukraine
Biologist looks at propaganda – Irina Yakutenko
Insightful to see how the biological particularities of our brain can be used to manipulate our perception.
Major primary English resource for Non-Russian speakers is Russian Media Monitor, which is the work of Julia Davis.
Konstantin found two Russian media speakers synchronized … sharing the same content – here.
Major points of Russian Propaganda
- Russophobia
This is one of the major narratives Russian propaganda pushes to argue that Russia is a victim, threatened by extinction from its Western enemies – the USA and its “slaves” – the European states and states like Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand – also refered to as “the collective West”
A Scholarly Article on this Topic – highly recommended
A FAKE NEWS report on this topic from Arte TV - Russia never attacked anyone
- Where have you been for 8 years?
- Ukraine bombed Donbas for 8 years?
- Where have you been for 8 years? Who organized a genocide in Donbas? (V. Milow)
- We are liberators – Ukrainian people will welcome our military with flowers.
- We are fighting the Nazi government in Ukraine. Nazis have taken over Ukraine. We are liberating the people from the Nazi scum.
- General Zalushnyi is a Nazi. – The general wears a bracelet with a svastika on it.
- Russian Imperialism – We never harm anybody – We protect other people and we are helping other people.
- We are defending ourselves.
- Putin explains how the West wants to cancel Russia in technological advances. (Russia forever!)
- We had no choice.
- We are not fighting against Ukrainians, we are fighting against the collective West – the USA and its NATO allies.
- Ukrainians are not our enemies. We are not fighting the people in Ukraine, we are fighting their government – who are puppets of the collective West.
- The collective West is about to die. People in the West are freezing and suffering, everything is in decline – both morally and physically.
- Russia is very very strong and in fact invincible
We will take Kyiv in three days.
EFFECT OF PROPAGANDA
- Our relatives in Russia believe their Russian propaganda more than us
- Similarily – Gleichschaltung – Experience of Losing Friends
- Broken Ties – Film about breaking family ties about the Russian war on Ukraine
Analysts and Critics of Russian Propaganda
Denis Kazanskyi – YouTube vlogger. Denis typically uses media from the Russia media space to debunk myths or point out the truth about what is happening in the Russian war on Ukraine.
Operator Starski – Anna from Ukraine – Channel 5 Ukraine –
Ukraine – TV Channel 1
Ukraine – TV Channel 1
Alex Goncharenko – His own YT channel
Om TV
Om TV – Collection of insightful reports on Russian propaganda points – coming from Ukraine
The Deceived Russian – Обманутый Россиянин
“A little humor to get through this difficult time.” This Ukrainian YouTube channel comments on Russian politics and the situation of the Russian war against Ukraine from a humorous perspective, a method that can be actually quite revealing of underlying story lines, as humor creates the emotional distance that allows us to take a less clouded look on things.
Mikhail Zygar
Mikhail Zygar (born 1981) is a Russian born journalist, writer and filmmaker, and the founding editor-in-chief of Russian opposition news channel TV Rain (2010–2015). Zygar is also the author of the book All the Kremlin’s Men, the history of Putin’s Russia, based on interviews with Russian politicians from Putin’s inner circle. As of 2022 he lives in Berlin in exile and often shares insightful reports on Russian politics and Russian society in the journal “Der Spiegel”. I provide some translated into English, for the purpose of looking deeper into the causes and conditions of the current war in Europe.
How Putin turned into the Hero of the Global South
Analysis of Key Narrative Operative Around October 2023
Anja Turnbull
Russian propaganda explained by a Russian-English blogger Anja Turnbull.
Full transcript here.
Irina Yakutenko
Irina gives an excellent overview and introduction why and how propaganda works and even has some ideas about how to move forward when you get into full-scale polarization in very important relationship in your life – parent-child, partners, friends.