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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

15. The War at Home: Putin’s Information Strategy Toward the Russian Population

Author : Nina Hellum

Published in: Information Sharing in Military Operations

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Russian president Vladimir Putin is pursuing a return to great-power status for Russia. In order to achieve his goal, Putin is using several information strategies to persuade the population to accept an escalation in military spending and the use of military force. These strategies have been called hybrid or information warfare, because they involve manipulating information available to the general public by controlling television networks and the Russian media. The media presents the Russian population with an “us against them” narrative where the “genuine and clean” Russian moral values are contrasted with the “depraved, immoral and decadent West.” This battle of values is depicted in the national media as an existential struggle that requires the support and expansion in the use of military force.

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Footnotes
2
For more insight on who Putin surrounds himself with, see Dawisha (2014).
 
4
Not taking inflation into account.
 
5
Note the fact that military procurements are charged from the first quarter.
 
6
A cognate of the Russian word dedushka (grandfather).
 
7
Sojuz Komitetov Soldatskikh Materej Rossii (Союз Комитетов Солдатских Матерей России).
 
10
The Levada Center operates with a Russian and an English website. They do not contain the same polls and results. Therefore, in this chapter, the different sites will be referenced using the Russian and the English names.
 
11
A Russian term used to describe military deception, or earlier, camouflage.
 
12
Original title: “Tar De livsløgnen fra et gjennemsnittsmenneske så tar De lykken fra ham med det samme”.
 
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Metadata
Title
The War at Home: Putin’s Information Strategy Toward the Russian Population
Author
Nina Hellum
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Information Sharing in Military Operations

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-42817-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-42819-2

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42819-2_15