Counter Surkov Governing techniques / methods
Counter Vlad Surkov techniques and methods
Introduction to the Kremlin media techniques of year 2014
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Peter Pomerantsev September 9, 2014: Russia and the Menace of Unreality. How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare
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Adam Curtis, BBC, December 31, 2014: On The "Contradictory Vaudeville" Of Post-Modern Politics - "What this film is going to suggest is that that defeatist response has become a central part of a new system of political control. And to understand how this is happening, you have to look to Russia, to a man called Vladislav Surkov, who is a hero of our time. Surkov is one of President Putin's advisers, and has helped him maintain his power for 15 years, but he has done it in a very new way."
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Book reading from December 5, 2014 on the subject by Peter Pomerantsev
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been cut dramatically. Wages have stagnated. Job insecurity has increased. Inequality has increased to obscene levels. And higher education and owning a house has become unobtainable for most people. So people feel vulnerable. And then it isn't a surprise that in these precarious times people begin to turn to their their groups for social support. For a sense of safety, belonging, connection, self-worth... and to feel an accepted part of something bigger than themselves.
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So we cling desperately to the groups that we're part of. You know, be that ideological groups, sports teams, groups we grew up part of due to our race, our culture, our religion. And what happens is toxic tribalism increases. So this also begins to explain why we're so quick to attack each other. Anything that even slightly threatens our group's integrity must be taken down, because in these precarious times where our self-worth is taking a battering from every possible angle, our groups are everything to us, whether we know it or not. So they must be protected at all costs.
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Therefore incivility and hostility rise as well. It's all connected. I mean, I think everyone's noticed that there's been kind of a deterioration. I mean, this is now, what's really interesting is that it's a topic of news that there's been a deterioration in our ability to report the news and to discuss the news without, you know, calling each other names and going crazy. From our positions of bias and our different standpoints, you know, we're throwing kind of word bombs and verbal attacks at each other. And that's what the information space is now. You know, the conversation can't keep up.
The conversation doesn't work anymore and, in fact, not even that it's not just keeping up, it's breaking down. For the first time in the U.S., the majority of both Democrats and Republicans now don't just have an unfavourable view of the other side, but a very unfavourable one. The animosity, according to the Pew Research Center, is so severe that almost half of both Republicans and Democrats claim that the other party's policies actually threaten the nation.
We thought: what better way to get Rou in the mood? And in the interest of being completely stereotypical, we're going to make him drink Stella.
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Are you guys happy? Fucking hell man... Stella? Well now the fucking party starts!