Russian activities to discredit international institutions in the light of the Russian-Ukrainian war

Authors

  • Dmytro Filip Ministry of Defence of Ukraine
  • Ivan Ablazov Military Academy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14036810

Keywords:

Joint Coordination Centre (JCC), European Union (EU), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC)

Abstract

The article considers the peculiarities of assessments, conclusions of Ukrainian and Western analysts, experts and politicians of Russian activities to discredit international institutions in the light of the Russian-Ukrainian war, which were published in the last two-three years by organizations and media as: UN, RBC-Ukraine, Reuters, Censor, Bellingcat, The Wall Street Journal, Lloyd’s List, Yemen Shabab, Myrotvorets, The Guardian, Naval News, Kyiv School of Economics, CEPA, Foreign Policy, CNN, European Pravda, Euro Integration, Ukrainska Pravda, Bloomberg, TSN, Ukrinform, The Kyiv Independent, ICRC, Deutsche Welle, Market Watch, Daily News Hungary, Voice of America, The Parliament, NATO, Ministry of National Defence Republic of Lithuania, Aerotime, Wikipedia, Politico, Euronews, Sabah, BBC, Kyodo News and others. The relevance of the proposed analysis is determined by the fact that it allows to understand the main activities of Russia aimed at discrediting the well-known international institutions and to reduce its impact on the global security. The conducted qualitative analysis allowed identifying a number of issues that proved to be a priority for analysts in the political, economic, judicial, cultural and social spheres. It has been discovered that Russia provides different kind of operations which have a negative impact on the UN, NATO, EU, ICRC, IMF, ICC, IAEA, local, international media and others institutions. These aggressive Russian policy lead to falling the credit of trust to international institutions and can change all existing world order. If active countermeasures in the nearest future will not be provided, this negatively will affect the global and European security.

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2024-09-30

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Filip, D., & Ablazov, I. (2024). Russian activities to discredit international institutions in the light of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Political Science and Security Studies Journal, 5(3), 22-43. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14036810

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