Putins Propaganda Machine
Putins Propaganda Machine
Soft Power and Russian Foreign Policy
Marcel H. Van Herpen
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Herpen, Marcel van.
Putin's propaganda machine : soft power and Russian foreign policy / Marcel H. Van Herpen.
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1. Russia (Federation)Foreign relationsWestern countries. 2. Western countriesForeign relationsRussia (Federation) 3. Ukraine Conflict, 2014 4. Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952 Political and social views. 5. PropagandaRussia (Federation) 6. Information warfareRussia (Federation) 7. Mass mediaPolitical aspectsRussia (Federation) 8. Public relations and politicsRussia (Federation) 9. Russkaia pravoslavnaia tserkov?Political aspectsRussia (Federation) 10. Russia (Federation)Politics and government1991 I. Title.
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To Boris Nemtsov (19592015)
Author Note and Acknowledgments
In writing this book I owe a lot to the discussions with the members of the Russia seminar of the Cicero Foundation. I want to thank in particular Albert van Driel, Peter Verwey, Ernst Wolff, Christiane Haroche, and Rona Heald for their continuous support. Not least am I indebted to my wife, Valrie, and my sons, Michiel and Cyrille, who gave me the necessary feedback during the whole project.
Glossary and Abbreviations
AfD | Allianz fr Deutschland (German Eurosceptic political party) |
AFP | Agence France-Presse (French news agency) |
Agitprop | Otdel agitatsii i propagandy (Propaganda department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union) |
ARD | Consortium of public broadcasters in Germany (operates the national First TV Channel, regional TV channels, and the international channel Deutsche Welle) |
BBC | British Broadcasting Corporation |
BDI | Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (German employers organization) |
BfV | Bundesverfassungsgericht (German Constitutional Court) |
BIS | Bezpenostn informan sluba (Security Information Service, counterintelligence service of the Czech Republic) |
BMD | Ballistic Missile Defense |
BRIC | Acronym of grouping referring to Brazil, Russia, India, and China |
BRICS | Acronym of grouping referring to Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa |
CCFRC | Conseil de coordination du forum des Russes de France (Coordination Council of the Forum of Russians in France) |
CCQS | Conseil de coopration franco-russe sur les questions de scurit (French-Russian Cooperation Council on Security Questions) |
CDU | Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (Christian Democratic Party of Germany) |
CFE | Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty |
CGT | Confdration Gnrale du Travail (French trade union) |
Cheka | All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (Soviet secret service December 19171922) |
CIA | Central Intelligence Agency (USA) |
CIS | Commonwealth of Independent States |
CNN | Cable News Network |
COPS | Comit politique et de scurit (Political and Security Committee of the European Union) |
CPSU | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
CSU | Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern (Christian Social Union in Bavaria, German political party) |
DCRI | Direction centrale du renseignement intrieur (French counter-intelligence service) |
DECR | Department of External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church |
DGAP | Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Auswrtige Politik (German foreign policy think tank) |
DPR | Donetsk Peoples Republic (self proclaimed republic by Russian and rebel militias in Eastern Ukraine) |
DS | Darzhavna sigurnost (State Security, Bulgarian secret service during communist rule) |
DVU | Deutsche Volksunion (German extreme right party) |
EED | European Endowment for Democracy (nonprofit organization, supports pro-democratic civil society organizations) |
EU | European Union |
Euromaidan | pro-EU protest movement in Ukraine, named after the Maidan Nezalezhnosti, the Independence Square in Kyiv |
FAPSI | Russian Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information |
FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation (USA) |
FN | Front National (French extreme right party) |
FSB | Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti (Federal Security Service, Russian secret service) |
FSO | Federalnaya Sluzhba Okhrany (Russian Federal Protective Service) |
GDR | German Democratic Republic (former communist Eastern Germany) |
GONGO | Government-organized nongovernmental organization |
GRU | Glavnoe Razvedyvatelnoe Upravlenie (Main Intelligence Directorate, Russian Military Foreign Intelligence Service) |
G7 | Intergovernmental forum of seven leading advanced economies |
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