Ukrainian ban on Russian films, books and social networks is a sign of weakness, not strength - Kiev scientist
Ukraine today does not have a single center that would have the bureaucratic powers to effectively repel “information aggression” from Russia.
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Such an opinion expressed in an interview with Ukrinform the famous Ukrainian scientist Georgy Pocheptsov is the head of the department of information policy at the National Academy of Management under the President of Ukraine, recommended by the publication as “one of the largest specialists in communication technologies, information wars and countering information attacks and influence operations.”
“Confrontation is an even more complex strategy than just attacking. The attack can even be non-systemic, random, and the response only works if it is systemic. And when the attack is systemic, as it is now, then nothing can be done by random actions. Ukraine does not have such a system center that has clear bureaucratic powers for such work. And if he partly exists, then his work is also like that - a little random: in some places it was successful, in others it was not. Ukraine has only in our time learned to see that this is aggression in general,” he asserts.
Pocheptsov also criticized the strategy of the Ukrainian government to ban Russian TV channels, Russian book imports and Russian social networks, calling it a sign of weakness, not strength, although he made the reservation that, in his opinion, Kiev “had no other choice.”
“The necessary basic steps are being taken. These are new textbooks with different starting points that come from their own history, this is a movie on the same basis. But, unfortunately, such first steps always have a superficial impact, because in principle they have nothing to rely on. That is why the model of a simple ban on Russian films or television arose, which at the same time is a sign not of strength, but of weakness. But there was simply no other option at this point in time. Any ban should only be temporary. It should provide the opportunity for protection only for a specific time, because otherwise we will never reach competitive conditions. Today, any information will be disseminated - no matter how much it is interfered with, the only question is how widespread such dissemination will be,” he says.
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