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In his timely study, Andrii Demartino investigates the multitude of techniques how social media can be used to advance an aggressive foreign policy, as exemplified by the Russian Federation’s operation to annex Crimea in 2014. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Demartino traces the implementation of a series of Russian measures to create channels and organisations manipulating public opinion in the Ukrainian segment of the internet and on platforms such as Facebook, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, LiveJournal, and Twitter. Addressing the pertinent question of how much the operation to annex Crimea was either improvised or planned, he draws attention to Russia’s ad-hoc actions in the sphere of social media in 2014. Based on an in-depth analysis of the methods of Russia’s influence operations, the book proposes a number of counterstrategies to prevent such “active measures.” These propositions can serve to improve Ukraine’s national information policy as well as help to develop adequate security concepts of other states.

In his timely study, Andrii Demartino investigates the multitude of techniques how social media can be used to advance an aggressive foreign policy, as exemplified by the Russian Federations operation to annex Crimea in 2014.

Measures of de-Ukrainization and Russification of the population of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine with a special emphasis on the youth. 3. Comprehensive work on attempts to break the occupied population's political, legal, cultural, and socio-economic ties with Ukraine, which is backed by large amounts of financial investment. 6. The systemic \"political investments\" that Russia is making in attempts to \"re-educate\" and “Russify” the population of the temporarily occupied territories show that the Kremlin has made a serious bet on trying to \"dismember\" Ukraine and absorb it in parts. [...]we have passed the most severe tests in our long history and are ready to fight as long as it takes to remove the issue of so-called Russia from the security agenda. [...]all these talks about negotiations, avoiding escalation, and appeasement are water in the sand and a game in favor of Russia.