Activities

February 4, 2020

Ukraine-Europe Forum

Today in Rzeszow (poland) the Ukraine-Europe forum took place. The main topics that interested our speakers were Ecology and Aggression of Russia against the free world.

      

From our public organization "OUR WAY " Yaroslav Kholodov spoke with the theme "The long shadow of propaganda is the information war with Ukraine and the West "

      

In addition to our speaker, the panel also featured:

  • Yurii Lapaiev - Deputy Editor-in-Chief
  • pablo Gonzalez - Journalist, Spain
  • Maria Serena Natale - Journalist, Corriere della Sera, Italy
  • David Svoboda - Historian, The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regi-mes, Czech Republic
  • Cécile Vaissié - professor - Head of Russian Studies Department, Rennes 2 University, France

Yaroslav Kholodov raised the themes of propaganda, the spread of fakes and the factory of trolls, as well as the impact of these processes on the democratic world; threats to Russia's military aggression and its gradually growing influence; the negative impact on the Western world of the weakening of the UN and, as it turned out, the erroneous opinion of the inviolability of international treaties on the example of a drop in confidence in the United States and European powers after the failed Budapest memorandum and the lack of US assistance to the Kurds.

Speakers discussed methods of combating the propaganda and military aggression of Russia. They drew attention to the need for the development and reform of educational systems to improve the education of citizens and their ability to independently fight propaganda.