The Crimean operation has served as an occasion for Russia
to demonstrate to the entire world the capabilities and the
potential of information warfare. Its goal is to use difficult
to detect methods to subordinate the elites and societies in
other countries by making use of various kinds of secret and
overt channels (secret services, diplomacy and the media),
psychological impact, and ideological and political sabotage.
Russian politicians and journalists have argued that information
battles are necessary for “the Russian/Eurasian civilisation”
to counteract “informational aggression from the
Atlantic civilisation led by the USA”. This argument from the
arsenal of applied geopolitics has been used for years. This
text is an attempt to provide an interpretation of information
warfare with the background of Russian geopolitical
theory and practice
