“Hate speech” as Technology for Conducting the Hybrid War of the Russian Federation Against Ukraine
Journal: Mediaforum Analytics Forecasts Information Management
Year: 2019

The following material is an attempt to analyze the problem of use of new media in the context of Ukrainian-Russian conflict, to explain the «hate speech» as a technology for hybrid warfare and the causes of its occurrence. It is described the issues of the use of hate speech in the East of Ukraine and on the occupied territory of the Crimea. In addition, this research identifies the main social groups against which Russian Federation uses «hate speech». In particular, they are Ukrainians (espec