«THE DAY HAS COME WHEN WE ALL RECOGNIZED THAT INFORMATION HAS BECOME ANOTHER TYPE OF WEAPON»: THE ARCHITECTURE OF RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION

Civil Network OPORA conducted a large-scale sociological study "Democracy, Rights and Freedoms of Citizens and Media Consumption in Conditions of War" in July 2022.

Ukrainians consider the rights and interests of citizens to be important, but at the same time they prefer a strong state and do not see timely and democratic elections as a priority after the suspension of martial law. However, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the russian federation, media consumption habits among Ukrainians have changed significantly: the majority get their news from online sources, in particular, social networks and messengers. This is evidenced by the dat...

Surprisingly, in more than three months of the russian-Ukrainian war, none of the russian high-ranking officials was able to explain what the term meant in relation to Ukraine. Furthermore, the words of putin's secretary, dmitry peskov, "denazification means that ideally, Ukraine should be liberated from the Nazis" can hardly be considered exhaustive.

Even before the full-scale russian invasion, Civil Network OPORA was working on exposing anti-Ukrainian Facebook pages, investigating the activities of pro-Russian politicians in social media, and identifying the objectives of the network of pages that promoted russian propaganda in Ukraine. In this piece, analysts share their experience of searching for such media, as illustrated by russian media sites and pages, which OPORA started collecting in February, 2022. Over the month since then, so...

Civil Network OPORA developed an online tool "War Speeches" to track the official position and public discourse of the occupying state on the course of the war against Ukraine and forecast its future aggressive plans.

Russia has started a full-scale war in Ukraine. However, Moscow does not publicly acknowledge this, promoting the thesis of a “special military operation” among its citizens.