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June 17, 2011 Alexander Golts

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has just signed the Federal Law “On ratification of an agreement between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus on interaction in the field of electronic warfare”, adopted by the State Duma on May 20, 2011 and approved by the Federation Council on May 25. On this occasion, at the end of May, the 24th meeting was held in Grodno, you will laugh, a permanent seminar on the construction of a allied state. Members of the Council of the Federation and the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the Council of the Republic and the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, and employees of the Standing Committee of the Union State. Representatives of the relevant ministries and departments of Russia and Belarus also took part in the work of the seminar, including from ministries of defense, foreign and internal affairs, as well as security services of both countries. The report on the event was placed in the Red Star.

According to the prevailing tradition, representatives of the Russian and Belarusian elite quickly switched from the electronic and information struggle (which is an extremely important element of the modern military operation), which, due to the backwardness, there is practically nothing to say, to discuss a psychological war.

The seminar participants vigorously told each other about the insidious plans of American imperialists. The chairman of the commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia on Information Policy, Gennady Davydo optimistically informed the present that “they have been talking about the future as the future, and it has been going on, it is just informational. Who owns information, he owns the world. ” He was supported by the representative of the Department of New Challenges and Threats of the Russian Foreign Ministry (it turns out, and there is such) Ernest Chernukhin. The Russian diplomat Chernukhin said that events related to information leaks in the Vikiliks are a vivid evidence of the undeclared war, already waged in world space.

Then colleagues began to cheerfully discuss information about the secret American center, where they work as many as 50 operators, each of which oversees up to 10 “influence agents” located in various countries of the world and “leading information warfare according to all the rules of political technologies for the destruction of their states” ... It seems that the matter almost came to discuss the subversive activities of 30 thousand couriers to contact agents of influence.
Gathering ended with the adoption of recommendations to the government of the Union State. In particular, they were advised to “counteract a focused negative informational impact on the authorities and the population by third countries; as well as information expansion of foreign countries. ”

I must say, one of the governments, namely the Belarusian, responded to recommendations with unprecedented efficiency. Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko accused the Russian media of deliberately pumping passions and the spread of panic around the economic situation in Belarus and threatened to block them on the air of the republic. Here you have a counteract of negative information impact on the full, so to speak, program. Moscow did not remain in debt and halved the supply of electricity to a partner in a union state.

Funny, you see, history. Deputies and diplomats are wearing a joint struggle with attempts to information pressure of third countries. Meanwhile, just between Moscow and Minsk there is a full -scale information war, which is accompanied by economic sanctions. Russia quite frankly says that it intends to get the most valuable pieces of Belarusian state property. And Old Man Lukashenko no less frankly says that if she sells something, then only for astronomical amounts. The normal dialogue of countries with directly opposite interests.

Meanwhile, external information threats are discussing in Grodno in Grodno. However, I would not say that the participants in the Grodno Grodno Clinical idiots. The problem is more serious. The only platform for creating a notorious union state is the confrontation between a fictitious threat from the West. Therefore, the champions of the Russian-Belarusian Union are doomed to look for such a threat even in the midst of Swara between Moscow and Minsk.

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