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Information Warfare Around the Events in Ukraine: Reasons, Methods, Purposes

Student: Radina Alena

Supervisor: Boris Aleksandrovich Kalyagin

Faculty: Faculty of Creative Industries

Educational Programme: Journalism (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2016

The situation of the Ukrainian crisis commenced in November 2013. Ukraine, Russia, the USA and the countries of the European Union were involved in the conflict as the principal parts. Many experts are claiming that we are still in the midst of this confrontation, which in comparison with 2014 and 2015 has subsided. However, information warfare is unlikely to be ceased in the short term. The purpose of the research is to investigate the reasons of the information war stacked against Russia, examine its methods, compare the purposes of the Russian and foreign printed media and identify the prospects of the conflict adjustment. In order to accomplish these goals we studied the vast array of scientific sources examining the concept of information war. The theoretical basis relied on the works of Russian and foreign political analysts, whose research was subject to the lexical analysis and analysis of the content. We have accomplished the study of the evolvement of Russian-Ukrainian relations and the roots of the current conflict. The practical base was built on the analysis of publications in Russian, Ukrainian and Western printed media using analysis of the content, lexical, stylistic analysis and comparative analysis. The hypothesis of the project is that according to the publications in the print media, the real war threat can be mitigated, but the information war will continue. Our investigation revealed that Russian newspapers emphasize the fact that the same oligarchical control is in charge of Ukraine now. Ukrainian printed media invocates to the information blockade. They recognize that there are many problems, but they blame attack on Russian aggression. Western newspapers show that the USA is a peacemaker, who strives to pacify Russian ambitions. This work aims to show how to distinguish articles written under the influence of information warfare and what strategies journalists should avoid writing updates in order not to become a part of the information war.

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