Russian Information Operations Outside of the Western Information Environment

The historical memory of colonialism — and the Soviet Union’s perceived role in combatting it — remains a powerful force in the Multi-aligned Community. [...] In its framing, it continues to champion this cause, with NATO as the new colonial power and universal values as a method of neo-colonial control. [...] Likewise, although the youth were suffering a crisis of confidence in Western-style democra- cy and the international order, it was asserted by interviewees that this reflected a desire for change and reform rather than to break away. [...] A recommended solution is the establish- ment of a NATO entity tasked with establishing partnerships with states and civil-society actors in the Multi-aligned Community. [...] The data collection and analysis used translation software to translate online social media content in the dominant languages of the specific country. [...] Comes in the shades of White, Grey and Black. [...] The commonality of cause has been combining the views and reach with their associated output in text, image, and video formats across these platforms into a comparable dataset. [...] This is another definition and an example of the ‘Useful Idiot’. [...] These three represent the universal response to agreement and are often used in an ironic way as a response to a statement. [...] 7 According to Newsguard, since Musk’s takeover of the platform, there has been a 70% increase in engagement with Kremlin, Iranian and Chinese Communist Party disinformation content. Kann, A.