(Russian: Дми́трий Константи́нович Киселёв; born April 26, 1954 in Moscow)[1] alternatively transliterated Kiselev, is a Russian journalist. In December 2013 he was appointed by Russian President Vladimir Putin to head the new official Russian government-owned international news agency Rossiya Segodnya….He is best known as presenter of Vesti nedeli (News of the Week),[2] a weekly news programme on the domestic Rossiya 1 television network….
Regarding Parkhomenko and Navalny**
he has asked, "Why are they liberals? They are absolutely totalitarian people. I am a liberal because I put up with them."[12] Kiselyov has been described by The Economist as Russia's propagandist-in-chief,[13][3] … .On 15 May 2014, Kiselyov said "There is no Ukraine. That is only a virtual concept, a virtual country. If you want to live in a virtual world, please do. ... But Ukraina.ru is a real portal. Not about the country, but about that territory which was under the rule of that country. Now it is a failed state."[23] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Kiselyov
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Sergey Parkhomenko is Russian journalist, publisher and founder of several projects aimed at developing civic activism and promoting liberal values in Russia. Parkhomenko is a former political reporter, commentator and editorialist at popular daily newspapers; founder and first editor-in-chief (1995-2001) of Russia's first current affairs weekly, published in cooperation with Newsweek; editor-in-chief of several publishing houses producing translated fiction and non-fiction literature; editor-in-chief of Vokrug Sveta, Russia's oldest monthly magazine. https://fsi.stanford.edu/people/sergey-parkhomenko
Navalny--see https://twitter.com/navalny Alexey Navalny Verified account @navalny 10 hours ago
Do you remember how on every "straight line" Putin boasted of the demographic success of his rule? These successes are:
1. Today in Russia 5100 children will be born.
2. Today 5561 people will die in Russia.
But the population will grow, because today 626 migrants will come to Russia.
Alexey Navalny Verified account @navalny 14 hours ago People died at the mine in Solikamsk. Uralkali will pay families 3 million ($ 44 thousand). Uralkali made billionaire Ryblovlev ($ 6.8 billion). Now they are owned by Kerimov ($ 6.4 billion) and Nesis ($ 1.9 billion). The country’s undead work only for oligarchs. The rest is a pitiful after-trip............................
.................................................................... 12-23/24-2018 Former head of Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine
“Russia is hoping for a change in the structure of Ukraine's political elite. This is the strategy of the Russian Federation today. It doesn't involve new offensive campaigns but provides for the promotion to leading posts in Ukraine of forces and persons who defend the pro-Russian stance, shift away from the European and Euro-Atlantic vector and go for the pro-Russian line,” Mykola Malomuzh said. “the Kremlin hopes to see a puppet government coming to power after the upcoming elections….That is, if Russia gains control over Ukraine economically and politically, they will not need war as they will achieve their goal anyway," the expert concludes.
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12-20-18 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
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Dec 20, 2018
US defense sector in 2019:
-David Deptula, retired USAF lieutenant general and dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies
THE BIG TREND: The dichotomy between the U.S. defense strategy and what is necessary to fund it will continue to grow, driven by public focus on the economy, the growing deficit and Washington political intrigue and a decreasing awareness of the growing complexity and capabilities of threats posed by China and Russia.
WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR: More clever Russian aggression in Ukraine and potentially the Baltics in light of the current feckless leadership of the Western European nations. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2018/12/20/the-year-ahead-in-defense-predictions-from-four-experts/#3cfec5ac7acc
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12-22-18 The Department of Counterintelligence Protection of State's interests in the sphere of Information Security of the State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in 2018 blocked access to more than 300 Internet resources used by Russia in its hybrid war against Ukraine as well as by international criminal groups to spread destructive information content. https://www.unian.info/society/10387596-ukraine-s-sbu-blocks-300-pro-russian-websites-in-2018.html
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-Ukrinform director-general
Putin’s Russia is known for its denialism, including denying producing fakes. Russian propaganda mainly follows the 4-D rule: dismiss, distort, distract, dismay. I would like to provide you with one good example of the “distort” and “distract” strategies combined.
This case is Russia covering up its downing of a passenger jet over occupied Eastern Ukraine in July 2014. The Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down from the sky by a Russian missile, killing all 298 people on board. Immediately after the tragedy, to hide the trace of evidence which was very directly pointing at the Kremlin, the Russian state media did not simply refute Moscow’s responsibility. Instead it began to simultaneously promote a number of made-up stories, one more surreal than the other.
One story said the aircraft was filled with dead bodies before departure and crushed over Eastern Ukraine to deliberately blame Russia. The other told that the aircraft of Russian President Putin was flying somewhere near the place of incident and had been the real target. One more insisted that it was a Ukrainian jet that fired an air-to-air missile at the passenger airliner.
No, it did not make too many people believe each one of those falsehoods alone. But it created a very mixed general picture in which real facts became blurred to many other “alternative” versions of events. As a result, although in the very first day of the incident Ukraine said (and presented evidence) that the airliner was shot down from the sky by a Russian BUK-M1 missile complex, it was taken very cautiously in the international community. “Other” versions however surreal and false they might have been created a false impression of “many sides” to the story and that everything is not that clear. “Question more!” says the slogan of Russia Today—does it really mean “Nothing is true?” Let’s have a look at what are the deeper causes of such behavior of Russians.
LYING IS CREATIVE. The current political paradigm of the Moscow’s regime is what can be called “Everything is possible and nothing is true” - there is such book by brilliant Peter Pomerantsev. The phrase was crafted by one of ideologists of putinism, Vladislav Surkov. What it means is that facts do not matter anymore, and it’s all about constructed realities. Any event or fact is what it is presented and not what it is. This strategy erodes truth and creates basis for whataboutism.
NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE, ESPECIALLY WHEN ACTORS HELP PRODUCE TV REPORTS. Russian propaganda is known for not shying off from hiring actors to pose as witnesses or scripting false stories for the interviewed. This was the case with the famous “crucified boy of Sloviansk”. At that point Ukrainian army has just regained control over a strategic town in the Eastern Ukraine, Sloviansk, where the whole war began in spring 2014. Russian main state TV channel, “Rossiya-1” has aired a report, which contained an interview with an alleged displaced person who flew from atrocities of the Ukrainian army. Without slightest hesitation, the women described a scene she allegedly saw at the central square of the town after Ukrainian forces took it: “They brought all people to the central square to conduct what they call “a public execution”. They took a little boy, just three years old, and nailed him to the bulletin board, just as if he was Jesus. One man was hitting the nails, two others were holding the boy. His mother had to watch it all. Some people lost consciousness”….The same strategy was applied with the propagandistic story published in Kremlin-friendly Italian media on “Georgian snipers” on Maidan. The Italian film of 2017 shows real people who confess in interviews that they were snipers who shot at both protesters and police during protests in Kyiv in winter 2013-2014. The story creates a false narrative that it was not riot police that shot them (which was what really happened) but rather some “third force”, some mysterious snipers, who created a false-flag operation to overthrow the government….
Customized newsfeeds lead us to the state where societies are hugely polarized. Each one reads people whom he or she agrees with, and each one lives in own reality.
THE TRUTH IS SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE… OF KISELIOV’S BRAIN. We’ve just talked about the world where what is true and what is not is more difficult for many to say than it had been before. Rogue actors like Russia, Iran and North Korea perfectly know how to use such state of affairs. Top Russian propagandist Dmitriy Kiseliov once said in an interview, “Truth is always somewhere in the middle”. Can this be serious? We know that truth is neither in the middle, nor to the right, nor to the left. The truth is simply in facts. If the truth is “in the middle”, as Dmitry Kiseliov says, then Russia can make its side so much stronger and louder, that the middle would eventually slide closer to the Russian point of view.
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