scholarly journals The Coverage of Events After Maidan Protests and the Annexation of Crimea in Local Russian-Language Newspapers in Lithuania (March, 2014)

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 ◽  
pp. 42-52
Author(s):  
Viktor Denisenko
Keyword(s):  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
The Public ◽  
Hybrid War ◽  
Global Agenda ◽  
Near Abroad ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

In 2014, some significant geopolitical changes in the region of Central and Eastern Europe took place. After the so-called Euromaidan events in Ukraine, Moscow took advantage of the situation and annexed the Crimean peninsula. The global agenda was dominated by the discussions about “hybrid war”, “information warfare,” etc. It was obvious that the Kremlin used propaganda in its operation in Crimea in order to manipulate the public opinion and to include ethnic minorities (Russian-speaking inhabitants of Crimea) into its games.In the above context of Kremlin’s practice of involving compatriots from near abroad (including Lithuania) into geopolitical processes, as well as facing the challenge of propaganda, it is important to look how the events in Ukraine were covered in the Russian-language newspapers in Lithuania. The materials of research become publications in the weeklies “Litovskij kurjer”, “Obzor”, and “Ekspress-nedelia”. The question of the research was: did these newspapers use narratives of the Kremlin propaganda, and if so, how strong was the representation of these narratives?

scholarly journals Language consequences of modern psychological and information warfare in Russian mass-media: problem definition

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-400
Author(s):  
Galina A. Kopnina ◽  
Natalya N. Koshkarova ◽  
Alexander P. Skovorodnikov
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Psychological Warfare ◽  
Political Linguistics ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Neutral Language

The paper deals with the urgent and topical issue of political linguistics - the influence of information and psychological warfare on the Russian language. The aim of the paper is to describe the most frequent novices in the modern Russian language and speech which occur due to the domestic information and psychological warfare. The research was carried out on the basis of the mass-media texts, the traditional linguistic research methods were used (analysis and description, contextual and axiological analysis, etc.). As the result of the analysis the authors singled out both new and traditional words and word combinations which simultaneously serve as the weapon and the result of information and psychological warfare. Two groups of language (speech) means were defined: specialized (which perform the relevant evaluative function - either positive or negative) and non-specialized (which change the function depending on the context, the semantic ambivalent words and word combinations). The specialized means include pejorative words and word combinations: political labels, invectives, terribilitisms (bogey-words), delusions (trap-words), negatively connotative words, and euphemisms. Ameliorative means are not characteristic of information and psychological warfare, though words and word combinations are widely used which denote national concepts being the subject of information rivalry. Neutral language means in information and psychological warfare in the Russian language include terms and terminoids, naming various types of rivalries and technologies constituting them. The results obtained contribute to the development of the information and psychological warfare linguistics. Research perspectives encompass the refinement of some points and the analysis of information and psychological warfare language consequences in the light of linguistic ecology.

scholarly journals About the 1905 Petition by the Taurian mufti A. Karashaysky*

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 763-777
Author(s):  
I. K. Zagidullin
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

The article reveals the reasons and prerequisites of 1905 Additional Petition by the Taurian mufti A. Karashaysky on behalf of Muslims of the Crimean Peninsula that was addressed to the Chairman of the Minsters’ Committee and where he wrote about the expansion of the Taurian Mohammedan Spiritual Board’s competence and about the necessity of increasing the status of Islamic institutes. Providing comparative analysis between the Additional Petition and the Public Petition from Crimean Tatars the author allocates the general and specifi c matters of their contents. Thus, the research paper concludes that the Public Petition, via the values of liberal social movement, mostly declared the social, religious and spiritual needs of Crimean Tatars, while the petition prepared by the group of Muslims and clergy under the leadership of the Taurian mufti A. Karashaysky had strictly corporate, confessional orientation.

scholarly journals Events At Maidan Nezalezhnosti Of Ukraine In Autumn 2013 – Winter 2014 (In View Of Different Ukrainian And Russian Printed Media)

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Vakulych ◽  
Igor Sharov
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Front Page ◽  
The Public ◽  
Personal Attitude ◽  
Printed Media ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Future Vision ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The Russian Language

Abstract The article deals with some peculiarities of highlighting sociopolitical events in Ukraine in autumn 2013 and in winter 2014 by some leading Ukrainian and Russian printed mass media and their personal attitude concerning the course of these events. Sociopolitical situation that was created in Ukraine at the end of 2013 proved that sizable gap between the public and power holders’ conscience, progress and regression. The discrepancies in the future vision of geopolitical location of Ukraine led to the mass protests that started in November 2013. The events that took place in the night from 29th to 30th of November and during January - February 2014 made the front page of all mass media, both Ukrainian and foreign, and those of the Russian Federation in particular. Great attention to highlighting the Ukrainian events during autumn 2013 and winter 2014 was paid by the journalists of the leading media, such as P. Beba, K. Matsehora, Y. Medunitsia, V. Protsyshyn – reporters of the central Executive body newspaper “Uriadovyi Kurier” (translated as “the governmental messenger”); O. Kucheriava, S. Lavreniuk – the newspaper of Verkhovna Rada “Holos Ukrainy” (translated as “the voice of Ukraine”); E. tor of Haladzhyi, D. Deriy, O. Dubovyk – the Ukrainian Russian-language newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda v Ukraini” (translated as “the komsomol truth in Ukraine”); P. Dulman, E. Hrushyn – the Russian language newspaper “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” (translated as “the Russian gazette”); A. Zakharova – the Ukrainian Russian-language newspaper “Segodnia” (translated as “today”). At the same time the events related to the sociopolitical protests that were covered in all mass media had some tonal marking: positive to the authority, negative to the authority, negative to the opposition, reserved to the opposition, negative to MIA (Ministry of Internal Affairs), positive to MIA, negative and positive to the participants of the mass protests, neutral, etc.

scholarly journals Checklist of rodents and insectivores of the Crimean Peninsula

ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 948 ◽  
pp. 121-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolay N. Tovpinets ◽  
Igor L. Evstafiev ◽  
Valeriy V. Stakheev ◽  
Andrey A. Lissovsky
Keyword(s):  
Species Identification ◽  
Species Distribution ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Visual Evaluation ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
The Public ◽  
Record Data ◽  
Data Source ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

A dataset comprising 6806 records is presented of 17 (of total 24) rodent and insectivore species from the Crimean Peninsula collected during a 35-year period. All records are stored in the Public Mammal Database (Mammals of Russia; http://rusmam.ru/). The density of occurrence points allows visual evaluation of species distribution, even on large-scale maps. Each record contains the species name, locality description, and geographic coordinates, coordinate accuracy, date and author of the record, data source, and the method of species identification.

scholarly journals Inside Frozen Geographies

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-155
Author(s):  
Edgaras Klivis
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Controversial Issue ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Theatre ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Boris Godunov ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

After the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula by the Russian Federation in 2014, the attitude of Baltic theatre producers and artists towards cultural and institutional partnerships with Russian theatres and their involvement in the mutual artistic exchanges, tours, common projects, and networking changed; not only due to these exchanges becoming a controversial issue in the public eye, but also due to the polarization they caused in the artistic community itself. Some artists, like Latvian stage director Alvis Hermanis, have decisively terminated all their previous creative partnerships, arrangements and tours, calling also other theatre artists “to take sides”. Others, like Russian stage and film director Kirill Serebrennikov who, for years, had been involved with Baltic theatres, would regard taking sides as a disastrous yielding of culture to the logic of war – theatre should be kept as the last link between societies gradually separated by reciprocal propaganda insanity. Building upon these conflicts describing the changes in intercultural theatrical cooperation between Russian and Baltic theatres, the article focuses on the analysis of three productions: Dreams of Rainis by Kirill Serebrennikov at the Latvian National Theatre (2015), Alexander Pushkin’s play Boris Godunov directed by Eimuntas Nekrošius at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre (2015) and Brodsky/Baryshnikov staged by Alvis Hermanis at the New Riga Theatre in 2016. All of the performances refused to stay inside the frameworks marked for them by the regimes of propaganda wars, public diplomacy, or dispositif of security, but focused instead on the possibilities of intellectual disobedience.

scholarly journals TERMINOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF MODERN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE POLICY

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
A.D. Vasilyev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
National Language ◽  
The Public ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
State Language

Issues of language policy are constantly relevant for any state, including Russia, which is a multinational country as stated officially. According to the current constitution, the Russian language is the state language of the Russian Federation; amendments to the 2020 Basic Law have finally and justly established the state-forming status of the Russian people. Naturally, the current speech-communicative processes in different spheres of life of society give rise to various conflicts. This also applies to the field of official communication – lawmaking, law enforcement, legal procedures, etc. Therefore, the sporadic attention of the authorities to the use of the Russian language as a state language is understandable. This was the key in the agenda of the meeting of the Russian Language Council, held on November 5, 2019 under the personal chairmanship of the President Vladimir V. Putin. However, the meeting participants did not pay due attention to a number of rather obvious problems that arise in this regard. Among them are, in particular, the pressing tasks of clearly differentiating stable varieties of the use of the national language and their normative labelling, some methodological principles of practical lexicography, probable linguodidactic innovations and specific forms of their implementation; finally, issues of juridical linguistics and of legal nature. The purpose of the article is to analyze the terminological aspect of language policy in Russia. As a result, it is obvious that the term “state language” should be filled with a clear conceptual content. This will also strengthen its place in the public consciousness.

scholarly journals Collective memory as a resource in Russian information warfare against Latvia

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 92-115
Author(s):  
Jānis Krēķis
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
The Russian Language

The paper analyses articles from the Russian language news­paper “Vesti Segodnya”, which are devoted to the war in Ukraine. The paper consists of two parts. The first part of this paper explains how the conceptu­alization of the information warfare has evolved during the second half of the 20th century and how the term “information warfare” is defined in Rus­sia. Then, by looking at the theoretical foundations of collective memory, it demonstrates how collective memory has been incorporated into news stories to create resonance with current events in Ukraine. It is concluded that the usage of collective memory can be identified in articles devoted to the war in Ukraine to resonate with conflict in eastern Ukraine.

scholarly journals Russian-language Literaly Periodicals

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-22
Author(s):  
Vera Sorokina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
New Type ◽  
Near Abroad ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Language Literature

The problem of Russian-language Literature of the far-abroad countries has been little studied by home literary critics and the concept itself has been developed only in application to the literature of Russian peoples and the near abroad. Creative associations and periodicals play an important role in the formation of a new type of Russian literature. Germany turned out to be the European center of Russian-language literature, just like a hundred years ago. The Russian-language literature is published by differently oriented periodicals among which are magazines adherent to the idea of two Russian literatures; magazines supporting the unity of the Russian literature and those tending to reveal the peculiarities of émigré Russian literature through the comparison it with the metropolitan one. The Russian-language literary prosses take place in a variety of periodicals and has signs of one of the national micro-cultures in the European space.

scholarly journals Cultural Policy of the Regions: Citizenship Solidarity in the Focus of Public Attention

2015 ◽  
pp. 31-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga N. Astafieva
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Managerial Resources ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Russian Language

There is presented the analytical review of the large-scale cultural event - II Cultural Forum of the Regions of Russia (Moscow - Yakutsk, September 25, 2015). The author focuses on the topical themes of the content of the scientific and practical conference, where there are covered in different aspects the issues of the regional cultural policy. Among the topics of the Forum: Implementation issues of the “Fundamentals of the State Cultural Policy in the Russian Federation”, state of the civil society, of the area of education and culture, of the prospects of strengthening of the Russian language, of ensuring independent quality assessment and social auditing, of the development of managerial resources in the sphere of culture, etc. Participation in the Forum work of 800 scientists, experts, members of Public chamber of the Russian Federation and the Public chambers of the Subjects of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation, Heads in the sphere of culture and education, representing 56 Subjects of the Russian Federation, provided the depth and versatility of the discussion.

scholarly journals Russia's hybrid war and the annexation of Crimea through the eyes of Polish researchers

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 194-204
Author(s):  
Mykola TURANSKIY ◽  
Andriy KHARUK
Keyword(s):  
Practical Importance ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
Common Mistake ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hybrid War ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

The article covers annexation of the Crimean peninsula in the framework of the hybrid war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine in the works of Polish researchers. Emphasizes the key role of the information component of the hybrid threat. The methodological basis is the principles of historical knowledge – science, complexity, objectivity, which determine the analysis of scientific publications in connection with socio-political and socio-economic events. On the basis of consideration of the works of domestic and Polish scientists, the peculiarities of the Russian information-psychological operation on the incorporation of the Crimean peninsula were analyzed, attention was paid to the facts of distortion of events and manipulation of the consciousness of society. The author aims to analyze the current and future paradigm of the development of the military-political situation in Ukraine and Europe. Prospects for further research should be aimed at supplementing the knowledge about the totality of factors of various influences of Russia on the countries of the post-Soviet space, as well as on the course of events in the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, identifying the tendencies of Russian information-psychological expansion and counteracting it in the context of information security. The works of Polish researchers confirm that the tendency of increasing the role of the information resource of the state and its strategic importance in the overall system of defense potential is now clearly visible. In 2014, it was a common mistake of most scientists and experts to believe that only Ukraine is the target of hybrid attacks, however, after five years of hybrid aggression, it becomes clear that the hybrid war "in Russian" there is against the western countries also. The subject of the hybrid Kremlin attacks is European democracies, and Moscow's goal the destruction of within European and Euro-Atlantic unity. Poland plays an important role in supporting the EU's policy of maintaining sanctions on Russia, which is a key instrument to deter further escalation of hybrid actions against Ukraine. There was an urgent need for scientific research of problems relating to information and psychological confrontation, propaganda technologies and counter-propaganda. Given the relevance and practical importance of these issues, further research is advisable to carry out in the direction of development of complex materials on the history of hybrid wars, with a significant emphasis on the consideration of information-psychological operation on the annexation of the Crimea. Keywords hybrid war, russian expansion, information influence, annexation, Crimea, propaganda.

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