Truth, Quasi Truth, and "Pure" Fake: Russia's Ongoing War Against Ukraine

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

Ukraine's presence on the front line of the hybrid war with the Russian Federation, an essential component of which is information warfare, has turned the information confrontation of various fakes into a routine feature of modern existence.
However, the spread of Russian fakes has much deeper roots. At different historical stages, a mixture of truth, distortions of "pure" fakes arose inherent to it.
However, the concentration in today's information policy of the Russian Federation is characterized by such a level of deviations from reality that it acquires the characteristics of propaganda and should be considered as such

Sub Unit

• International Relations, Security Studies, Foreign Policy

Chair

• Antonina Vitaliivna Berezovenko, National Technical U of Ukraine "KPI" (Ukraine)

Papers

• Fakes in Historical Russian Didactic Narrative as a Tool for Creating an Image of a Hostile 'Other' - Antonina Vitaliivna Berezovenko, National Technical U of Ukraine "KPI" (Ukraine)

• Fake as a Challenge to Freedom: Democracy vs. Authoritarianism - Olga Gomilko, National Academy of Sciences (Ukraine)

• Russian and Pro-Russian Academia as a Component of Information Warfare Against Ukraine: Origins, Methods, and Tools - Nadiia Honcharenko, National Academy of Arts (Ukraine)

Discussants

• Oleksandr Pankieiev, U of Alberta (Canada)

• Bohdan Futey