Information Warfare/Operations of the Russian Federation in the Context of SARS-COV-2
Information Warfare/Operations of the Russian Federation in the Context of SARS-COV-2

Summary/Abstract: High-impact global events, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, occur very rarely– probably several times over a century – and produce, among other things,major geopolitical changes, targeting alliances, political blocs, regions, states and areas of influence. The Covid-19 pandemic quickly affected the entire world, and the personal freedom of billions of people was restricted in an unprecedented way. However,the pandemic has not frozen the conflicts between various states of the world.Although a global response to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus crisis is needed,the Russian Federation does not consider it in its best interest to contribute– and, in fact, the Kremlin is using the crisis to further destabilise the world.Thus, simultaneously with the virus, an enormous amount of data and information is spreading all over the world, many of them being part of a large campaign to influence public opinion through warfare/information operations planned and executed by the Russian authorities.The global framework created by the expansion of the pandemic represented the operational moment identified by the Kremlin to implement, once again,the complex machinery represented by information warfare/operations, which have thus become the most complex form of modern confrontation.

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