In the last decade, the concepts of "hybrid warfare" and "hybrid aggression" have gained a peculiar kind of popularity in political discourse, but no unified approaches to their interpretation have yet been developed.
Some approaches to the concept of "hybrid warfare" combine propagand...
Everyone and their mother has commented on the protest rally against "deep integration" that took place in Minsk on December 7-8. On the Internet, one can find both triumphal shouts about an unprecedented atmosphere of freedom (which even the police officers did not interfere with) and ...
In November 2019, the Ukrainian band TNMK released a cartoon video, which presents the history of Ukraine in five minutes. The cartoon is very close to its Belarusian counterpart, which was released in 2011, both in terms of form and content.
The very presentation of information in the...
As shown by the retrospective analysis of the events progression dynamics, in most countries, fake news is systematically transformed from a routine element of the media space into a threat to national security. This unfavourable reality is publicly recognised not only by small and medi...
Over the past decades, the issue of fake information in India has become a serious problem. And although the country has a stable and well-deserved reputation as one of the world's IT leaders, until recently, the authorities paid relatively little attention to both the introduction of c...
On 22 November, the remains of the participants of 1863-1864 uprising, including Kastus Kalinouski, are being reburied in Vilnius. This event was preceded by a rather significant information campaign, which caused a resonance in Belarusian society. Analysts of the Belarusian Institute f...
10 years after the Green Revolution of 2009 and two years after the events of 2017-2018, Iran has again been overwhelmed by a wave of mass violent protests. This time, the formal reason was a 2-fold increase in gasoline prices and restrictions on the sale of fuel. Spontaneous demonstrat...
In the process of monitoring the topic of the "stuck" results of the presidential elections in Afghanistan, one has to hear various expert opinions about this country, which is positioned as a "resource of great opportunities", including in terms of the implementation of various project...
"There are hundreds of such organizations, with thousands of groups each year working to solve dozens of thousands of problems. These non-polluting factories got the name "think tanks". Like many general names of this kind, the name "think tank" oversimplifies the essence, but neverthel...
European experts have shown great interest in the initiative of the President of Belarus "Digital Neighbourhood Belt", the idea of which is to ensure digital sovereignty and neutrality, as well as non-interference of countries in each other's information resources. The implementation of...
The expert circles and the society of Belarus received with great interest the speech of the President of Kazakhstan K.-J. Tokayev on September 2, 2019 with the Address to the People of Kazakhstan.
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Since 2014, the influence of populist political organizations and right-wing movements in European countries has grown.
Their distinguishing features include: nationalist slogans; intolerance towards immigrants, members of national and sexual minorities; European scepticism – sceptic o...