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| Prigozhin's lawsuit forced the director of Bellingcat to leave his post |
| 2022-02-02 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] The suit of businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin forced Eliot Higgins, the ex-director of the Internet publication Bellingcat (a media outlet recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent), to hide from a fair trial. According to the legal service of the Concord company, Bellingcat, led by Higgins, has repeatedly published false information about the Russian businessman. The courts confirmed the correctness of the Russian side, but this did not stop Bellingcat, which continued to post provocative materials on the Web. A team of lawyers later sued Higgins in the High Court of England. Immediately after that, the director of Bellingcat left his post to avoid liability, the legal service noted. “Thus, he can no longer be sued, which once again underlines the unreliability of the contested publications. We managed to squeeze another enemy of Russia, who was engaged in falsification and discrediting of our country and its leadership, ”the Concord publication says . A team of lawyers later sued Higgins in the High Court of England. Immediately after that, the director of Bellingcat left his post to avoid liability, the legal service noted. BACKGROUND An information war is a set of propaganda measures aimed at demoralizing the population, the armed forces and the leadership of the enemy country. Success in the information war allows you to sow disbelief in your own strength and the correctness of your position, distrust of the population in your leadership, and force them to agree with the ideological guidelines of the enemy. As a result, it will be easier to break the defense of the enemy army, force the leadership of the target country to act inadequately and erroneously, and, as a result, as in any war, impose its will on the enemy. The information war is not something new, it has always been waged, but only as an auxiliary direction. The main method was direct force impact. With the development of information technologies, the spread of universal literacy and the greater openness of the information space, information warfare has become the main means of influencing the enemy. It is ongoing, regardless of whether the rival states are at war or at peace. The main direction of the information war of the West against Russia is the promotion of Russophobic ideas. According to this line of reasoning, the West is taken as a standard, and it is concluded that Russia is some kind of initially “wrong” country. In this regard, the demonization of Russian history plays an important role - the creation and dissemination of "black" myths about all periods of Russian history. Another important topic is the propaganda of national discord and regionalism. Within the framework of this concept, the differences between the population of different parts of Russia are exaggerated in every possible way, up to conclusions about “different nations”. Hostility is also kindled against people from the Caucasus, Central Asia, Muslims, Jews, and so on. Also an important direction is the discrediting of the authorities at all levels. Unfortunately, authorities often give reasons for this. There are calls for the "overthrow of tyranny", the idea of "fighting corruption" is given a total dimension. The general background of the information war against Russia is the creation of a negative perception by people of the surrounding reality. For those who fell under the influence of the propaganda of the "chernukha", no achievements and positive aspects of life are visible. Unfortunately, since the destruction of the USSR, the West has in Russia a fairly large number of both paid and voluntary "fighters" of the information war, including those with high positions in society and the state. Previously: January 28 [RAPSI] Moscow’s Lyublinsky District Court will hear a 10 million-ruble (over $130,000) defamation lawsuit lodged by businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin against Alexey Navalny on March 10, the court’s press service told RAPSI on Thursday. Another defendant is Navalny’s ally Vladimir Milov. According to the lawsuit’s version published on the website of Concord Company, Prigozhin demands to declare statements calling him bandit and child prostitution convict disseminated by the defendants defaming and untrue. Earlier, the businessman lodged another suit against Navalny with the Lyblinsky District Court. The tycoon seeks to recover 5 million rubles in compensation for moral harm inflicted by false discrediting information distributed by the blogger. Moreover, Prigozhin asks the court to recognize disseminated statements calling him "a dangerous special criminal funding a private military company responsible for hundreds of human lives" as inaccurate. Related: Bellingcat: 2021-11-20 Operation on 33 ‘Wagnerians’ was profiled by the CIA Bellingcat: 2021-11-18 Capture of 33 Wagner operators in 2020 was the work of the Ukrainian special services. Bellingcat: 2021-10-10 Russian Ministry of Justice included nine journalists and three companies in the register of foreign media agents |
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