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Content: The media include state-run outlets and online technologies,[3][4]and may involve using "Soviet-style 'active measures' as an element of modern Russian 'political warfare'".[5] Contemporary Russian propaganda focuses on promoting a cult of personality around Vladimir Putinand the Russian government has also been highly actives in debates on Soviet history;[6]Russia has established a number of organizations such as the Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests, the Russian web brigadesand others than engage in political propaganda to promote the views of the Putin government. Contents
1State-sponsored global PR effort
2Use of social media
3Reactions
4See also
5References
6External links
State-sponsored global PR effort[edit]
At the end of 2008, Lev Gudkov, based on the Levada Centerpolling data, pointed out the near-disappearance of public opinionas a socio-political institution in contemporary Russia and its replacement with the  state propaganda. [ 7]
Shortly after the Beslan school hostage crisisin September 2004, Putin enhanced a Kremlin-sponsored program aimed at "improving Russia's image" abroad.[8] One of the major projects of the program was the creation in 2005 of Russia Today (now known as RT) an English language TV news channel providing 24-hour news coverage. Towards its start-up budget, $30 million of public funds were allocated. [ 9][10]A CBS Newsstory on the launch of Russia Today quoted Boris Kagarlitskyas saying it was "very much a continuation of the old Soviet propagandaservices". [ 11]
Russia's deputy foreign minister Grigory Karasinsaid in August 2008, in the context of the Russia-Georgia conflict: " Western mediais a well-organized machine, which is showing only those pictures that fit in well with their thoughts. We find it very difficult to squeeze our opinion into the pages of their newspapers." [ 12]In June 2007, Vedomostireported that the Kremlin had been intensifying its official lobbyingactivities in the United States since 2003, among other things hiring such companies as Hannaford Enterprises and Ketchum. [ 13]
In a 2005 interview with U.S government-owned external broadcaster Voice of America, the Russian-Israeli blogger Anton Nossiksaid the creation of RT "smacks of Soviet-style propagandacampaigns." [