Итак, сегодня 1 января 2018 года. И я задумалась над тем, насколько успешным для меня был прошедший год...
Как оказалось, лично для меня этот год принес и много и очень мало перемен.
Я смогла вырваться в Финляндию в конце января 2017 года. Это был фантастический вояж. Преследуемая российскими спецслубами, я смогла сделать невозможное. И, конечно же, я не могла сделать этого совсем одна. На этом пути мне помогали и российские пограничники, и сотрудники визового центра, и особая благодарность украинцу, проживающему в Финляндии Алексею Титиевскому. И тут шпилька ботам и тролям, называвшим меня сумасшедшей... Ведь Алексей - врач - психиатр, и отличный, кстати, который со смехом поставил мне диагноз: ты просто умная и смелая.
При этом работа проекта "Груз-200 из Украины в Россию" не прервалась ни на день.
И не обошлось без провокаций. Как рассказали мне финские миграционные власти: такое у них было впервые, поскольку меня пытались вычислить непосредственно в лагерях беженцев. Некие личности проникли туда и по собственной глупости и самоуверенности засняли все это сами на видео. Хороший материал для суда.
Безмерно удивило то, что в лагерях беженцев я встретила людей, которые оказались членами моей группы и проекта, и они еще более активно включились в эту работу.
6 апреля 2017 года я организовала круглый стол "Как противостоять российской агрессии". И впервые в Европе были названы вещи своими именами: Россия - агрессор. И была принята резолюция...В круглом столе приняли участие представители 17и стран мира. Одновременно, в лагере беженцев, где я находилась была усилена охрана, а меня после этого Круглого стола вновь перевели в новый лагерь для беженцев. Но даже я не ожидала такого эффекта: в начале мая Открытая Россия собирает Круглый стол, принимает написанную мной резолюцию и тоже объявляет Путина агрессором, а уже к концу мая о путинской агрессии в голос заговорили в Белом доме...
...Я была благодарна украинца и россиянам, которые с весны 2017 года началисобирать подписи за награждение меня Орденом Небесной Сотни. И хотя понятно, что в нынешних условиях, когда правительство Порошенко, не стесняясь, показало, что готово на сотрудничество с Кремлем, а значит всех, кто хотел помочь Украине отстоять независимость ждет незавидная участь, это просто порыв честных людей - я благодарю Украину за это намерение.
Тогда же в мае 2017 года мы передали в американское посольство в Хельсинки все наработанные материалы, а также я разослала в очень многие европейские комитеты наши результаты исследований. И даже лично Трампу в Белый Дом направила пакет документов.
Т.е. все, что я могла сделать в условиях проживания в лагере беженцев - я сделала по максимуму.
А теперь о негативном...
Находясь в невероятно стесненных условиях, я и тут умудрилась продолжать вести начатый проект, в основном благодаря самоотверженности админов нашей группы в Фейсбуке и удаленным помощникам.
Честно скажу, очень трудно. Нет статуса, абсолютно не хватает средств. Нет расчетного счета - в Финляндии с этим строго. Чтобы оплатить интернет, приходится изворачиваться самым сложным образом.
Нужна новая техника: ноуты, жестяки, переходники. Я совершенно перестала снимать и монтировать видео - техника подводит. И из-за этого часть видеоматериалов по российской агрессии до сих пор оказались не обработанными...
И теперь я серьезно думаю остановить данный проект, хотя были планы и мечты:
- проехать с лекциями по Европе, США, Канаде, не боясь, встретиться с теми, кто поддерживает Путина, показать им "обратную сторону этой медали", организовать встречи с депутатами Европарламента и т.п.
- выпустить свои книги, а в этом году в лагере беженцев написала вторую книгу по материалам проекта с названием "Их там нет". Но книги надо переводить на английский, немецкий и другие языки.
- хотелось создать специальную интерактивную карту и большой портал в интернете, где необходимо обобщить и разместить все наши результаты. Они необходимы для Гааги.
И все это требует реальных серьезных средств...
Этот проект оказался "ахиллесовой пятой" Кремля. Именно по этой причине меня продолжают преследовать. Те, кто это понял из политиков предпочли воздержаться и ретировались. Убийство Бориса Немцова испугало их.
Народ не понял. Не поддержал. Одна российская активистка написала мне: "Если народ не поддерживает проект пожертвованиями хотя бы раз в месяц, значит такой проект народу не интересен". Жаль констатировать, но она права.
За прошедший год на поддержку проекта поступило 480 евро, 260 из которых - на публикацию книг. Они не потрачены и ждут своего часа. 120 евро - на проведение Круглого стола в апреле, остальное в оплату за интернет по 20 евро в месяц.
Иногда у меня складывается впечатление, что вся эта правда нужна лишь паре десятков активных граждан в мире. Поскольку основная масса народа - пассивные зрители. И придут они в себя лишь тогда, когда к ним в дом влетит снаряд в виде привета от "дяди Путина". Но тогда уже будет поздно.
Этот проект меня научил важной истине: невозможно заставить кого-то быть счастливым или осмотрительным. Невозможно заставить человека, если он не хочет, защитить свой собственный дом (нонсенс, но правда). Возможно лишь показать людям путь защиты, но и его не увидят... гром не грянет, как говорят...
Так что в общественном плане - я считаю, результаты почти нулевые... Ими и пользуется Кремль.
Многие задаются вопросом: почему Путина и Кремль не останавливают введенные санкции... На это есть один горький ответ: их действительно не остановить, если не объединиться. Они нашли самую уязвимую точку в обществе и абсолютно спокойно бьют по ней, и могут добиться своего: дестабилизации в Европе и новой 3й мировой войны.
Что делать, я уже писала. Ниже напишу еще раз, но уже на английском языке.Но люди по природе своей ленивые. Это и есть камень преткновения и проигрыш в нынешних условиях.
И понимаю, что эта публикация - очередной пустой зов в пустыне. Но надежда остается, надеюсь, что найдутся люди, которые смогут помочь найти серьезного инвестора, мецената, спонсора для продолжения проекта и объяснения сути происходящего. И не надо мне советовать к кому обращаться. Я обращалась ко многим за эти 4 года. Попробуйте найти сами и сообщите результат...
Так что, попытка защитить мир от войны лично для меня пока оказалось совершенно неудачной: дом в России сожжен, в квартиру не вернуться, с родными разлучена уже несколько лет, потеряны и страна и минимальное благополучие и уже год без статуса - беженец - это сложно. И понимаю, что этот режим не простит мне сделанного.
И все же я неисправима))) поэтому пишу на английском. Быть может кому-то удастся достучаться до спящего общества в Европе:
Как оказалось, лично для меня этот год принес и много и очень мало перемен.
Я смогла вырваться в Финляндию в конце января 2017 года. Это был фантастический вояж. Преследуемая российскими спецслубами, я смогла сделать невозможное. И, конечно же, я не могла сделать этого совсем одна. На этом пути мне помогали и российские пограничники, и сотрудники визового центра, и особая благодарность украинцу, проживающему в Финляндии Алексею Титиевскому. И тут шпилька ботам и тролям, называвшим меня сумасшедшей... Ведь Алексей - врач - психиатр, и отличный, кстати, который со смехом поставил мне диагноз: ты просто умная и смелая.
При этом работа проекта "Груз-200 из Украины в Россию" не прервалась ни на день.
И не обошлось без провокаций. Как рассказали мне финские миграционные власти: такое у них было впервые, поскольку меня пытались вычислить непосредственно в лагерях беженцев. Некие личности проникли туда и по собственной глупости и самоуверенности засняли все это сами на видео. Хороший материал для суда.
Безмерно удивило то, что в лагерях беженцев я встретила людей, которые оказались членами моей группы и проекта, и они еще более активно включились в эту работу.
6 апреля 2017 года я организовала круглый стол "Как противостоять российской агрессии". И впервые в Европе были названы вещи своими именами: Россия - агрессор. И была принята резолюция...В круглом столе приняли участие представители 17и стран мира. Одновременно, в лагере беженцев, где я находилась была усилена охрана, а меня после этого Круглого стола вновь перевели в новый лагерь для беженцев. Но даже я не ожидала такого эффекта: в начале мая Открытая Россия собирает Круглый стол, принимает написанную мной резолюцию и тоже объявляет Путина агрессором, а уже к концу мая о путинской агрессии в голос заговорили в Белом доме...
...Я была благодарна украинца и россиянам, которые с весны 2017 года началисобирать подписи за награждение меня Орденом Небесной Сотни. И хотя понятно, что в нынешних условиях, когда правительство Порошенко, не стесняясь, показало, что готово на сотрудничество с Кремлем, а значит всех, кто хотел помочь Украине отстоять независимость ждет незавидная участь, это просто порыв честных людей - я благодарю Украину за это намерение.
Тогда же в мае 2017 года мы передали в американское посольство в Хельсинки все наработанные материалы, а также я разослала в очень многие европейские комитеты наши результаты исследований. И даже лично Трампу в Белый Дом направила пакет документов.
Т.е. все, что я могла сделать в условиях проживания в лагере беженцев - я сделала по максимуму.
А теперь о негативном...
Находясь в невероятно стесненных условиях, я и тут умудрилась продолжать вести начатый проект, в основном благодаря самоотверженности админов нашей группы в Фейсбуке и удаленным помощникам.
Честно скажу, очень трудно. Нет статуса, абсолютно не хватает средств. Нет расчетного счета - в Финляндии с этим строго. Чтобы оплатить интернет, приходится изворачиваться самым сложным образом.
Нужна новая техника: ноуты, жестяки, переходники. Я совершенно перестала снимать и монтировать видео - техника подводит. И из-за этого часть видеоматериалов по российской агрессии до сих пор оказались не обработанными...
И теперь я серьезно думаю остановить данный проект, хотя были планы и мечты:
- проехать с лекциями по Европе, США, Канаде, не боясь, встретиться с теми, кто поддерживает Путина, показать им "обратную сторону этой медали", организовать встречи с депутатами Европарламента и т.п.
- выпустить свои книги, а в этом году в лагере беженцев написала вторую книгу по материалам проекта с названием "Их там нет". Но книги надо переводить на английский, немецкий и другие языки.
- хотелось создать специальную интерактивную карту и большой портал в интернете, где необходимо обобщить и разместить все наши результаты. Они необходимы для Гааги.
И все это требует реальных серьезных средств...
Этот проект оказался "ахиллесовой пятой" Кремля. Именно по этой причине меня продолжают преследовать. Те, кто это понял из политиков предпочли воздержаться и ретировались. Убийство Бориса Немцова испугало их.
Народ не понял. Не поддержал. Одна российская активистка написала мне: "Если народ не поддерживает проект пожертвованиями хотя бы раз в месяц, значит такой проект народу не интересен". Жаль констатировать, но она права.
За прошедший год на поддержку проекта поступило 480 евро, 260 из которых - на публикацию книг. Они не потрачены и ждут своего часа. 120 евро - на проведение Круглого стола в апреле, остальное в оплату за интернет по 20 евро в месяц.
Иногда у меня складывается впечатление, что вся эта правда нужна лишь паре десятков активных граждан в мире. Поскольку основная масса народа - пассивные зрители. И придут они в себя лишь тогда, когда к ним в дом влетит снаряд в виде привета от "дяди Путина". Но тогда уже будет поздно.
Этот проект меня научил важной истине: невозможно заставить кого-то быть счастливым или осмотрительным. Невозможно заставить человека, если он не хочет, защитить свой собственный дом (нонсенс, но правда). Возможно лишь показать людям путь защиты, но и его не увидят... гром не грянет, как говорят...
Так что в общественном плане - я считаю, результаты почти нулевые... Ими и пользуется Кремль.
Многие задаются вопросом: почему Путина и Кремль не останавливают введенные санкции... На это есть один горький ответ: их действительно не остановить, если не объединиться. Они нашли самую уязвимую точку в обществе и абсолютно спокойно бьют по ней, и могут добиться своего: дестабилизации в Европе и новой 3й мировой войны.
Что делать, я уже писала. Ниже напишу еще раз, но уже на английском языке.Но люди по природе своей ленивые. Это и есть камень преткновения и проигрыш в нынешних условиях.
И понимаю, что эта публикация - очередной пустой зов в пустыне. Но надежда остается, надеюсь, что найдутся люди, которые смогут помочь найти серьезного инвестора, мецената, спонсора для продолжения проекта и объяснения сути происходящего. И не надо мне советовать к кому обращаться. Я обращалась ко многим за эти 4 года. Попробуйте найти сами и сообщите результат...
Так что, попытка защитить мир от войны лично для меня пока оказалось совершенно неудачной: дом в России сожжен, в квартиру не вернуться, с родными разлучена уже несколько лет, потеряны и страна и минимальное благополучие и уже год без статуса - беженец - это сложно. И понимаю, что этот режим не простит мне сделанного.
И все же я неисправима))) поэтому пишу на английском. Быть может кому-то удастся достучаться до спящего общества в Европе:
Hybrid wars can not be stopped without the help of civil: society```` HYBRID WARS CANNOT BE WON WITHOUT
HELP OF CIVIL SOCIETY
By will of
fate for over three years I have to study methods of a new hybrid war which is
forced to all countries by Kremlin. In the present time Europe and all the
world face a real threat.
Now there are
many disputes on the concept of hybrid war – especially in military circles. I am
not going to challenge their positions. Many people think that such a war is
subjection of a certain territory by informational, digital , cybernetic
operations combined with actions of military forces and special services and
with intense economic pressure. I agree with this assertion and I propose to
you to consider the first and, in my opinion, the most important part of it: If
you have won an informational war, the rest is a matter of technology.
Russia
studied structure of world`s developed societies very carefully and it found
out a lot of holes which it uses now in war against Ukraine, having tested them
earlier agin in fight against Georgia and Chechnya.
What is a
principal cause of Kremlin victories? The first principle of informational war
is a total lie with application of all mass media. No drop of truth, total
censorship everywhere and in all aspects. You should agree that there is not a
place for military servicemen. The object of treatment is civil society.
Citizens of developed countries for many decades pay taxes to maintain armies
and policy forces. And they believe that military servicemen receive their
salaries not in vain. This is right but this alsj hides the first trick used
intensely by Kremlin.
For example,
let us consider a small situation which
I can see now in Finland. It is a very tolerant state where military and police
forces work as a good clock.
And I say it again, the state is maximally
tolerant to its citizens.
And suddenly
in tnis society a civil public organization starts to work carrying out Kremlin
orders to destabilize the society.
Each ordinary
citizen – a member of the organization – has callsigns. This the first sign of
people`s involvement in a hybrid war. I should remind that callsigns is an
exclusive prerogative of military. And
now in Donbass war, as it was earlier in Georgia, military servicemen are
infiltrated in advance on a foreign territory under civilian disguise having
changed their names and responding only at callsigns.
In their
visible activity they are only activists of their organization which provides propaganda
according to Kremlin guidelines. And neither military nor police cannot have any
claims to them. But some active citizens start to expose activity of such an
organization.
What can
these citizens do – to call for police? No, there is no offence and such
enemies cannot be prosecuted. Civil legal actions? But a citizen of European
state citizen should pay for lawyer services and if he or she loses a trial, he
or she should bear all legal costs. Citizens have not financial means to fight
in courts and to attract attention of media and
public. And nobody is going to insure your risks. This is another reason
for continuation of hybrid war.
And if there
are people who threaten to expose such an organization, Kremlin gives a command
to media and they start up a project to malign good names and images of people
who want to warn about an approaching danger. This process involves social
networks. A bright example of Kremlin hybrid war soldier is Anatoly Shary`s
videoblog. If you watch it, you don`t see any anti-government calls. It only “plucks”
this or that politician or human rights activist.
If you
analyze Shary`s “revelations”, you will see that no one of them is based on
real facts. His task is simple: to distribute gossips regarding a particular
person or state – in our case, it is Ukraine nd people who want to tell truth
about Russian aggression.
He receives
texts to be read and ihis work is to voice them and to pass them for editing to
a group of people who provide distribution of this lie through Internet. Nobody
could stop this blogger for 3,5 years and this shows that the society is not
prepared to counter such a kind of hybrid informational war.
It is also
impossible to fight against thousands of websites distributing deliberate lies
about honest people since refutation of lies demands legal actions with
expenses for lawyer services. Kremlin has no financial problems while civil
society members find no support in governments or in military circles.
At best,
these activists are offered to look for grants for their human rights
activities while time is going. And people in Kremlin know this very well. And
they use this situation efficiently.
Thus, people
who really want to warn, to help in the informational war against the enemy
face bmoral crackdown, blackening of their images. But I repeat – there is no
visible danger for military as well as for police, the state is tolerant and
its citizens have the right for expression of their opinions.
And this is
what Kremlin needs.
There is a
Russian proverb: “ drop of water wears away a stone”. And such a simple
organization continues its work. They organize conferences and round table
meetings, they distribute false information
- you should not be afraid of those who bring a threat or, on the
contrary, – Russia is powerful and modern state having an invincible army while your state is in poor condition and you
should replace these or those political leaders. And this organization rewards
its volunteers financially, it arranges for them meetings in other European
countries…
At the same
time such an organization has invisible
activities – they find suicide bombers or simple terrorists. And
suddenly your safe country faces a terrorist attack or strange immigrants start
to kill people…
And now there
is a growing wave of disaffection in regard of refugees from foreign countries
– especially from Middle East. But why people flee from there? They flee
because in a hybrid war Kremlin sponsors terrorists and together with them bomb
peaceful towns in Arab countries. People flee in a fear, saving their lives,
leaving villages, towns and whole regions. Where do they run? To Europe-because
it is closer. Those who can run to USA, Canada, any other countries – further
from the zone of unsettled conflicts.
And European governments
with their provincial thinking solve momentary urgent problems – how to help
these refugees with accommodation, how to assimilate them. And nobody solves
the main problem: how to settle conflicts in those countries so that to stop the
streams of refugees.
Do you
remember that Putin said not once that Russia had no boundaries? They really
consider all the world as their own
territory –as it were, they use planetary thinking. And within Russia they make
experiences in zombification and total regulation of society. They do not care
about Russia`s population. This is why the imposed sanctions did not touch the
people in Kremlin. Or, rather, we see the contrary – the sanctions prompted
them to further experiences with Russian people. They reproduce in Russia all
failures which they had in Western countries and they repeat cynically
experiences with their citizens again and again – and transfer these
experiences to Europe.
Therefore,
the sanctions imposed on Russia do not change the situation. And in the present
time the world loses to Putin unambiguously.
One of the
latest bright experiences with Russians was the project of Flat Earth
assertion. And now school teachers of geography nake pupils to learn this
nonsense absolutely seriously. And nobody protests. And another brightly
visible experience – total domination of Orthodox beliefs everywhere, even in State
Duma. And crusades are going on all around…But
all this is in Russia where people are zombified so that they are ready
to die for the Father-Tsar Putin and they would not spare their children for
Him. Looking at all this madness, tolerant Europe shrugs its shoulders – and
does not prohibit watching Russian TV-channels. And they use already electronic
zombification intensely. And Europe wonders – why there are so much Putin
supporters…
I can provide
many examples. But the main question is – what should we do?
And there is
an answer. Indeed, without help of civil society no military force will prevent
an attack at its country. Invisible invasion and attack on Europe have already
started. Military forces can prevent a direct invasion of enemy but they are
not able to stop emerging wars. And the result is one – terrorist attacks
continue to kill people. Therefore, hybrid wars demand to review urgently – in
fact, this should have been done “yesterday” – an approach to protection of
European states. Ministries of Defense simply
must start to provide funds for help to civil activists who will use
these funds to initiate legal actions against penetrated rogues in public
communication sphere. Civil and human rights activists should have resources to
attract lawyers and pay for their services – in this case they will begin a
real decisive fight against all propagandists in social networks, they will
stop and refute lies of pro-Kremlin websites and shadow war heralds.
I work for
the project “Cargo200 from Ukraine to
Russia” for 3,5 years. A lot of lie about us and me was distributed during
this time. But I and my volunteers have no means to stop expansion of this lie stream.
For we have only one way - legal actions
with attraction of journalists. Lawyers are not interested in providing free
services. And therefore mountains of prepared suits are not sent anywhere. And
people continue to read Kremlin gossips in social networks and believe them –
as they cannot see refutations.
A latest
bright example: in Moscow Shary won the trial against Mark Feygin, a lawyer. He
won in spite of evident advantage of Feygin`s case. A lone lawyer is also unable to fight against
a huge system.
However, one
should not make the mistakes which were made by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
These mistakes should be taken into consideration and corrected.
Let us
analyze such a mistake using my project as an example. We cannot succeed
without ‘debriefing”.
My project
proved to be very successful in the informational war against Kremlin.
In September
2014 we had a very high-level meeting in the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense The officers were much wondered by efficiency
of civil activist actions. And when I asked them to provide a help, they told
me that they had a special department confronting Russian informational
attacks. And instead of helping me, they decided to take my project under their
command. They included new people in the project and provided a very good
financing.
And instead
of collaboration this department began a war against me and our volunteers.
Like genuine bots they threw up fake news to us and then mocked them together
with the same Shary`s blog. (I do not like to think that they helped to Kremlin
deliberately since the beginning.)
What they did
not take into account:
-
I and my assistants were well-known
in Russian regions; each of our
statements
was heard and, accordingly, had an
effect – our information went further. We know how to work in conditions of
total censorship and we know vulnerable points of Kremlin.
-
What was important – ordinary Russian
citizens believed us and through
horizontal
channels our information reached even remotest Russian villages. But the same people do not trust Ukrainian
media and Ukrainian citizens and, being under impact of Russian central
TV-channels, they do not wish to read and to watch information supplied by
Ukrainians.
But instead of supporting us, the
officers from Ukrainian Ministry of Defense started their “rebranding” directed
against us. And they threw mud on us so
intensely that they provided a good help to Kremlin. There was only one effect:
European media ceased to cover the war in Donbass and had been keeping silence
for over 3 months. They just could not understand what was really going on in
Ukraine and why Ukrainians attacked the people who helped them very
efficiently. And Russians lost a
powerful stream of information. Now the voices of mine and our Russian
volunteers are almost inaudible in Russia. And so-called “cottonwool patriots” continue
to greet Putin and to love him.
And was the principal reason of
these actions from the side of Ukrainian Ministry of Defense? Ukraine gave out
a rather good money for the purposes of informational war. But officers from
the Ministry of Defense staff were unable to produce their own good ideas of
informational offensive. They did not
want to cooperate with civil society. And, of course, they “sawed” within their circle taxpayer`s
money which were given to provide informational defense of the state.
There are two projects regarded by
Ukrainian military as quite successful – Peacemaker
and Informnapalm; they were
well-advertised – buy only in Ukraine. And these projects tried to bend under
themselves the international project Cargo200
from Ukraine to Russia.
Russia has blocked these Ukrainian
websites on its territory. For Russian mercenaries an inclusion in the Peacemaker database became a sign
of honour. And if we remember how the Peacemaker published data on journalists
from Europe and world accredited in Ukraine making them targets for terrorists,
we can conclude that these guys from the Peacemaker
ceased to be friendly with common sense long ago – since they imagined
themselves to be gods of informational war.
Meanwhile the informational war
brings heavy defeats on all directions.
And if they supported us, this
collaboration of civil societies in many countries would reach its goal. If they shared resources or paid to lawyers
who could refute lies in courts and attract attention of journalists to such
trials and people in social networks and in regions would distribute these
results – we would win the informational war in a very important sector.
There are so many of such “ifs”…
Let us return to Finland – an
European stste…As I has said above, it has no leverage to impact on terrorists
implanted under the guise of civil
organization.
It does not help to separate
citizens who are able to make legal actions, to attract journalists.
It has no desire to cooperate with
civil society on this matter. This is out of its agenda. …
And the informational defense line
collapses already letting terrorists to arrange their conferences quietly, to
organize movements, to promote Kremlin ideas. And throughout Europe Kremlin
propagandists operate quite easily as they continue to compromise those who try to promote the truth about Russian aggression. And people
who still try to promote this truth are offered to look for grants to provide
their activities. Putin knew what he did when he forbade at once receiving of
international grants by non-governmental civil organizations. He and his people
envisaged everything.
Kilometers of paper were used for
writings on the topic “Who wins the informational war between us and Russia”. Internet is full of analyses. But
there are no results.
Therefore I have only one
recommendation: it is the time for joining
efforts of military and civil society. There should be serious
collaboration with people who have had an experience of this fight without
repeat of mistakes regarding creation of ‘our own wheels” as it was in the
above-indicated example with Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
For in this moment we all are losing
to Kremlin in the hybrid war.
It is the time for change of
approaches. Otherwise the sleeping Europe will not wake up in time and the
world will fall into the 3rd World War.
```` HYBRID WARS CANNOT BE WON WITHOUT
HELP OF CIVIL SOCIETY
By will of
fate for over three years I have to study methods of a new hybrid war which is
forced to all countries by Kremlin. In the present time Europe and all the
world face a real threat.
Now there are
many disputes on the concept of hybrid war – especially in military circles. I am
not going to challenge their positions. Many people think that such a war is
subjection of a certain territory by informational, digital , cybernetic
operations combined with actions of military forces and special services and
with intense economic pressure. I agree with this assertion and I propose to
you to consider the first and, in my opinion, the most important part of it: If
you have won an informational war, the rest is a matter of technology.
Russia
studied structure of world`s developed societies very carefully and it found
out a lot of holes which it uses now in war against Ukraine, having tested them
earlier agin in fight against Georgia and Chechnya.
What is a
principal cause of Kremlin victories? The first principle of informational war
is a total lie with application of all mass media. No drop of truth, total
censorship everywhere and in all aspects. You should agree that there is not a
place for military servicemen. The object of treatment is civil society.
Citizens of developed countries for many decades pay taxes to maintain armies
and policy forces. And they believe that military servicemen receive their
salaries not in vain. This is right but this alsj hides the first trick used
intensely by Kremlin.
For example,
let us consider a small situation which
I can see now in Finland. It is a very tolerant state where military and police
forces work as a good clock.
And I say it again, the state is maximally
tolerant to its citizens.
And suddenly
in tnis society a civil public organization starts to work carrying out Kremlin
orders to destabilize the society.
Each ordinary
citizen – a member of the organization – has callsigns. This the first sign of
people`s involvement in a hybrid war. I should remind that callsigns is an
exclusive prerogative of military. And
now in Donbass war, as it was earlier in Georgia, military servicemen are
infiltrated in advance on a foreign territory under civilian disguise having
changed their names and responding only at callsigns.
In their
visible activity they are only activists of their organization which provides propaganda
according to Kremlin guidelines. And neither military nor police cannot have any
claims to them. But some active citizens start to expose activity of such an
organization.
What can
these citizens do – to call for police? No, there is no offence and such
enemies cannot be prosecuted. Civil legal actions? But a citizen of European
state citizen should pay for lawyer services and if he or she loses a trial, he
or she should bear all legal costs. Citizens have not financial means to fight
in courts and to attract attention of media and
public. And nobody is going to insure your risks. This is another reason
for continuation of hybrid war.
And if there
are people who threaten to expose such an organization, Kremlin gives a command
to media and they start up a project to malign good names and images of people
who want to warn about an approaching danger. This process involves social
networks. A bright example of Kremlin hybrid war soldier is Anatoly Shary`s
videoblog. If you watch it, you don`t see any anti-government calls. It only “plucks”
this or that politician or human rights activist.
If you
analyze Shary`s “revelations”, you will see that no one of them is based on
real facts. His task is simple: to distribute gossips regarding a particular
person or state – in our case, it is Ukraine nd people who want to tell truth
about Russian aggression.
He receives
texts to be read and ihis work is to voice them and to pass them for editing to
a group of people who provide distribution of this lie through Internet. Nobody
could stop this blogger for 3,5 years and this shows that the society is not
prepared to counter such a kind of hybrid informational war.
It is also
impossible to fight against thousands of websites distributing deliberate lies
about honest people since refutation of lies demands legal actions with
expenses for lawyer services. Kremlin has no financial problems while civil
society members find no support in governments or in military circles.
At best,
these activists are offered to look for grants for their human rights
activities while time is going. And people in Kremlin know this very well. And
they use this situation efficiently.
Thus, people
who really want to warn, to help in the informational war against the enemy
face bmoral crackdown, blackening of their images. But I repeat – there is no
visible danger for military as well as for police, the state is tolerant and
its citizens have the right for expression of their opinions.
And this is
what Kremlin needs.
There is a
Russian proverb: “ drop of water wears away a stone”. And such a simple
organization continues its work. They organize conferences and round table
meetings, they distribute false information
- you should not be afraid of those who bring a threat or, on the
contrary, – Russia is powerful and modern state having an invincible army while your state is in poor condition and you
should replace these or those political leaders. And this organization rewards
its volunteers financially, it arranges for them meetings in other European
countries…
At the same
time such an organization has invisible
activities – they find suicide bombers or simple terrorists. And
suddenly your safe country faces a terrorist attack or strange immigrants start
to kill people…
And now there
is a growing wave of disaffection in regard of refugees from foreign countries
– especially from Middle East. But why people flee from there? They flee
because in a hybrid war Kremlin sponsors terrorists and together with them bomb
peaceful towns in Arab countries. People flee in a fear, saving their lives,
leaving villages, towns and whole regions. Where do they run? To Europe-because
it is closer. Those who can run to USA, Canada, any other countries – further
from the zone of unsettled conflicts.
And European governments
with their provincial thinking solve momentary urgent problems – how to help
these refugees with accommodation, how to assimilate them. And nobody solves
the main problem: how to settle conflicts in those countries so that to stop the
streams of refugees.
Do you
remember that Putin said not once that Russia had no boundaries? They really
consider all the world as their own
territory –as it were, they use planetary thinking. And within Russia they make
experiences in zombification and total regulation of society. They do not care
about Russia`s population. This is why the imposed sanctions did not touch the
people in Kremlin. Or, rather, we see the contrary – the sanctions prompted
them to further experiences with Russian people. They reproduce in Russia all
failures which they had in Western countries and they repeat cynically
experiences with their citizens again and again – and transfer these
experiences to Europe.
Therefore,
the sanctions imposed on Russia do not change the situation. And in the present
time the world loses to Putin unambiguously.
One of the
latest bright experiences with Russians was the project of Flat Earth
assertion. And now school teachers of geography nake pupils to learn this
nonsense absolutely seriously. And nobody protests. And another brightly
visible experience – total domination of Orthodox beliefs everywhere, even in State
Duma. And crusades are going on all around…But
all this is in Russia where people are zombified so that they are ready
to die for the Father-Tsar Putin and they would not spare their children for
Him. Looking at all this madness, tolerant Europe shrugs its shoulders – and
does not prohibit watching Russian TV-channels. And they use already electronic
zombification intensely. And Europe wonders – why there are so much Putin
supporters…
I can provide
many examples. But the main question is – what should we do?
And there is
an answer. Indeed, without help of civil society no military force will prevent
an attack at its country. Invisible invasion and attack on Europe have already
started. Military forces can prevent a direct invasion of enemy but they are
not able to stop emerging wars. And the result is one – terrorist attacks
continue to kill people. Therefore, hybrid wars demand to review urgently – in
fact, this should have been done “yesterday” – an approach to protection of
European states. Ministries of Defense simply
must start to provide funds for help to civil activists who will use
these funds to initiate legal actions against penetrated rogues in public
communication sphere. Civil and human rights activists should have resources to
attract lawyers and pay for their services – in this case they will begin a
real decisive fight against all propagandists in social networks, they will
stop and refute lies of pro-Kremlin websites and shadow war heralds.
I work for
the project “Cargo200 from Ukraine to
Russia” for 3,5 years. A lot of lie about us and me was distributed during
this time. But I and my volunteers have no means to stop expansion of this lie stream.
For we have only one way - legal actions
with attraction of journalists. Lawyers are not interested in providing free
services. And therefore mountains of prepared suits are not sent anywhere. And
people continue to read Kremlin gossips in social networks and believe them –
as they cannot see refutations.
A latest
bright example: in Moscow Shary won the trial against Mark Feygin, a lawyer. He
won in spite of evident advantage of Feygin`s case. A lone lawyer is also unable to fight against
a huge system.
However, one
should not make the mistakes which were made by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
These mistakes should be taken into consideration and corrected.
Let us
analyze such a mistake using my project as an example. We cannot succeed
without ‘debriefing”.
My project
proved to be very successful in the informational war against Kremlin.
In September
2014 we had a very high-level meeting in the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense The officers were much wondered by efficiency
of civil activist actions. And when I asked them to provide a help, they told
me that they had a special department confronting Russian informational
attacks. And instead of helping me, they decided to take my project under their
command. They included new people in the project and provided a very good
financing.
And instead
of collaboration this department began a war against me and our volunteers.
Like genuine bots they threw up fake news to us and then mocked them together
with the same Shary`s blog. (I do not like to think that they helped to Kremlin
deliberately since the beginning.)
What they did
not take into account:
-
I and my assistants were well-known
in Russian regions; each of our
statements
was heard and, accordingly, had an
effect – our information went further. We know how to work in conditions of
total censorship and we know vulnerable points of Kremlin.
-
What was important – ordinary Russian
citizens believed us and through
horizontal
channels our information reached even remotest Russian villages. But the same people do not trust Ukrainian
media and Ukrainian citizens and, being under impact of Russian central
TV-channels, they do not wish to read and to watch information supplied by
Ukrainians.
But instead of supporting us, the
officers from Ukrainian Ministry of Defense started their “rebranding” directed
against us. And they threw mud on us so
intensely that they provided a good help to Kremlin. There was only one effect:
European media ceased to cover the war in Donbass and had been keeping silence
for over 3 months. They just could not understand what was really going on in
Ukraine and why Ukrainians attacked the people who helped them very
efficiently. And Russians lost a
powerful stream of information. Now the voices of mine and our Russian
volunteers are almost inaudible in Russia. And so-called “cottonwool patriots” continue
to greet Putin and to love him.
And was the principal reason of
these actions from the side of Ukrainian Ministry of Defense? Ukraine gave out
a rather good money for the purposes of informational war. But officers from
the Ministry of Defense staff were unable to produce their own good ideas of
informational offensive. They did not
want to cooperate with civil society. And, of course, they “sawed” within their circle taxpayer`s
money which were given to provide informational defense of the state.
There are two projects regarded by
Ukrainian military as quite successful – Peacemaker
and Informnapalm; they were
well-advertised – buy only in Ukraine. And these projects tried to bend under
themselves the international project Cargo200
from Ukraine to Russia.
Russia has blocked these Ukrainian
websites on its territory. For Russian mercenaries an inclusion in the Peacemaker database became a sign
of honour. And if we remember how the Peacemaker published data on journalists
from Europe and world accredited in Ukraine making them targets for terrorists,
we can conclude that these guys from the Peacemaker
ceased to be friendly with common sense long ago – since they imagined
themselves to be gods of informational war.
Meanwhile the informational war
brings heavy defeats on all directions.
And if they supported us, this
collaboration of civil societies in many countries would reach its goal. If they shared resources or paid to lawyers
who could refute lies in courts and attract attention of journalists to such
trials and people in social networks and in regions would distribute these
results – we would win the informational war in a very important sector.
There are so many of such “ifs”…
Let us return to Finland – an
European stste…As I has said above, it has no leverage to impact on terrorists
implanted under the guise of civil
organization.
It does not help to separate
citizens who are able to make legal actions, to attract journalists.
It has no desire to cooperate with
civil society on this matter. This is out of its agenda. …
And the informational defense line
collapses already letting terrorists to arrange their conferences quietly, to
organize movements, to promote Kremlin ideas. And throughout Europe Kremlin
propagandists operate quite easily as they continue to compromise those who try to promote the truth about Russian aggression. And people
who still try to promote this truth are offered to look for grants to provide
their activities. Putin knew what he did when he forbade at once receiving of
international grants by non-governmental civil organizations. He and his people
envisaged everything.
Kilometers of paper were used for
writings on the topic “Who wins the informational war between us and Russia”. Internet is full of analyses. But
there are no results.
Therefore I have only one
recommendation: it is the time for joining
efforts of military and civil society. There should be serious
collaboration with people who have had an experience of this fight without
repeat of mistakes regarding creation of ‘our own wheels” as it was in the
above-indicated example with Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
For in this moment we all are losing
to Kremlin in the hybrid war.
It is the time for change of
approaches. Otherwise the sleeping Europe will not wake up in time and the
world will fall into the 3rd World War.
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