Russian government tells state propaganda to prepare for eternal information war with the West - Kremlin is not going to curtail ideological attacks even if the war against Ukraine is over

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The Kremlin, through the mouth of one of its key ideologues, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Russian Presidential Administration Sergei Kiriyenko, who is in charge of domestic policy, declared the continuation of the course of aggressive propaganda treatment of Russians, reports The Moscow Times [original article in Russian language].

He said Russia must counter the information war allegedly waged against Russia by Western countries, which are not going to curtail ideological attacks even if the real one is over ."There is an information war going on, and you and I have said many times that the hot war will end, we hope it will be soon, but the information war will never end," he said, addressing participants in the propaganda "Festival of New Media." Kirienko explained the steady increase in the number of media people participating in the propaganda event and the fact that their tasks are becoming "more and more serious and more important."

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The New Media Workshop, a project of the Kremlin-linked Dialogue Regions Autonomous Nonprofit Organization and the Russia - Land of Opportunities Autonomous Nonprofit Organization created by President Vladimir Putin's decree, is responsible for organizing the New Media Festival. Participants in the festival, which took place in Senezh on August 15-17, are supposed to form a "new media reality of Russia."

In July, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said that Russia had developed military censorship "unprecedented for our country" amid the invasion of Ukraine. "After all, the war is going on in the information space too. And it would be wrong to turn a blind eye to media outlets that are purposefully engaged in discrediting Russia," Peskov said in an interview with Expert magazine.

According to Vedomosti [a Russian state-controlled daily broadsheet newspaper] a new department may be created for Kiriyenko, which would essentially take over the functions of the "Russian Houses" that were actively expelled from former Soviet republics, such as Azerbaijan or Moldova. This department will primarily deal with "humanitarian cooperation" and the promotion of the Kremlin's "soft power" in neighbouring countries as well as the Global South.