Ukraine Thread

[Gilrandir]

According to the index I linked, the bolded part is definitely not the case...

I don't think much of attempts to squeeze into hard figures and gauge such notions as freedom, happiness, culture, love... Still less if such attempts are based on questionnaire the latter being way too subjective.

I'm also not confusing anything, I think less freedom of the press leads to more bias as the press sees itself forced to adapt to certain things.

Being free doesn't mean unbiased. Like major newspapers in the Uk are not owned by any political parties, yet they traditionally favor some of them (like The Daily telegraph is considered to be supporting Tories). So being free from outer pressure doesn't exclude self-censorship and traditional bias.

Your country is at war, to think that it is just interested in spreading truthful information is somewhat laughable.
Let me quote the article:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/25/tech...ex.html?iid=EL

Now I wouldn't ask them to make their names and addresses public but it seems as though noone will know that they are basically shills of the Ukrainian government, which is the major issue with the Russian trolls as well. That they pose as "concerned citizens" when they really promote a government agenda.

Knowing how inefficient Ukrainian government are (and the mentioned Ministry of Truth is considered to be the least efficient) and knowing how little money and experience of informational war it has had hitherto I would say that it would hardly resist any informational aggression from Russia, still less go offensive on that front. The only successful attempts to counter Russian propaganda were exercised by non-governmental groups, such as Stopfake. But they all fight the products spun by Rissians and not invent their own.

I have no idea what he is going to do next, but that doesn't automatically make all the claims that he's going to conquer Europe true.

It was not my bid. Being aware of basic tenet of the Russian World conception ("Russia is where Russian is spoken") and Putin's admission that the collapse of the Soviet Unoin is his personal tragedy I would say that his ultimate goal is re-creating the USSR in its boundaries.

Who do you think is my idol then?

I don't know. I was speaking not of you personally, but of you=anyone. You can rephrase my post having this clarification in view.