{"id":9979,"date":"2018-04-17T06:11:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T02:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/myth\/kantaria-s-nostalgic-memories-about-ort-and-rossiya-kultura-and-kremlin-s-usage-of-culture-and-entertainment-tv-programs-as-a-tool\/"},"modified":"2020-08-28T09:30:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T05:30:03","slug":"kantaria-s-nostalgic-memories-about-ort-and-rossiya-kultura-and-kremlin-s-usage-of-culture-and-entertainment-tv-programs-as-a-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/en\/kantaria-s-nostalgic-memories-about-ort-and-rossiya-kultura-and-kremlin-s-usage-of-culture-and-entertainment-tv-programs-as-a-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Kantaria\u2019s \u201cNostalgic Memories\u201d about ORT and \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u044f \u2013 \u041a\u0443\u043b\u044c\u0442\u0443\u0440\u0430 and Kremlin\u2019s Usage of Culture and Entertainment TV Programs as a Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his interview with Obieqtivi TV on March 29, 2018, MP Nukri Kantaria of the ruling Georgian Dream party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myvideo.ge\/v\/3558507\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">spoke<\/a> about Russian TV channels and noted that Georgian culture as a diplomatic means of emotional influence is not properly used in the relations with Russia. Those persons and groups who travel to Russia as part of cultural events are subject to strong criticism. The Georgian Dream lawmaker said that in order to demonstrate cultural threads with Russia, Russian-language TV channels ORT and \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u044f \u2013 \u041a\u0443\u043b\u044c\u0442\u0443\u0440\u0430 frequently air Georgian films and programs with the participation of representatives of Georgian culture. Nukri Kantaria said that discussions on banning Russian TV channels are incorrect.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#c0392b;\"><strong>Russia itself uses cultural links and media as a means of political influence. For this purpose, it finances state-owned organizations and foundations, think tanks, as well as cultural and scientific events. According to the study conducted by the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence (NATO StratCom COE), Russian media outlets actively voice propagandistic messages in entertainment and comedy TV shows as well. In parallel with the aggression carried out in Ukraine and Georgia, Russian media portrayed invented and fake news as a reality.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Harvard University Professor and International Relations Scholar, Joseph Nye said that countries frequently use \u201csoft power\u201d to achieve a desirable result in pursuing foreign policy, which unlike \u201chard power\u201d is built on cooperation and attraction <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nplg.gov.ge\/gwdict\/index.php?a=term&amp;d=5&amp;t=10377\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">mechanisms<\/a> rather than coercion and pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Nye explains that \u201csoft power\u201d is the ability to achieve a result through persuasion and attraction rather than coercion. Soft power involves the following components: culture, public diplomacy, media, as well as their reasonable use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cna.org\/CNA_files\/PDF\/DRM-2017-U-015367-3Rev.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">According<\/a> to the study released by CNA in 2018 on mapping Russian media\u2019s role in Russian foreign policy and decision-making, Russia tries to increase cultural influence abroad and uses various actors for this purpose:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Russian community and cultural institutions <\/strong>&#8211; government agencies such as Rossotrudnichestvo and government-sponsored foundations such as Russkiy Mir (literally \u201cRussian World\u201d) aim to promote Russian language and culture and to \u201cconsolidate Russians globally on the basis of their loyalty to the Kremlin.\u201d The Russian government spends a considerable amount of time and money promoting its conception of a global \u201cRussian world.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Associations, think tanks, and events <\/strong>\u2013 various associations and think tanks are actively used to promote Russian foreign policy in European nations. For example, the Franco-Russian Dialogue and the Petersburg Dialogues operate as nongovernmental events or organizations despite the fact that each receives funding directly from the Kremlin. Both organizations encourage a deliberately pro-Kremlin worldview and advocate for Kremlin-friendly policies in many European capitals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Russian Orthodox Church<\/strong> \u2013 it unifies Russians and compatriots living within Russia and abroad by promoting the idea of a greater ethno-cultural Russian state. Religious teachings of the Church shore up the Kremlin\u2019s Eurosceptic worldview while framing Western liberal democracy as antithetical to Russian identity and security.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color:#4e5f70;\"><strong>Russia\u2019s Influence Abroad: Culture and Society<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" cellspacing=\"1\" style=\"width: 796px;\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"col\" style=\"width: 274px;\">\n<p>Civil Society, Think Tanks, Institutes<\/p>\n<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\" style=\"width: 263px;\">\n<p>Associations and Events<\/p>\n<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\" style=\"width: 241px;\">\n<p>Religious and Cultural Organizations<\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 274px;\">\n<p>Institute for Democracy and Cooperation (France)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 263px;\">\n<p>Petersburg Dialogue (Gemrany)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 241px;\">\n<p>Moscow Houses (Baltic States)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 274px;\">\n<p>Russkiy Mir<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 263px;\">\n<p>German-Russian Forum<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 241px;\">\n<p>Russian Orthodox Church<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 274px;\">\n<p>Valdai Discussions Club<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 263px;\">\n<p>Franco-Russian Dialogue<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 241px;\">\n<p>Rossotrudnichestvo<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 274px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 263px;\">\n<p>Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute (Germany)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 241px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em><strong>Source: CNA<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>France Case Study: Russian Media as a Tool of \u201cCultural Diplomacy\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carnegiecouncil.org\/publications\/articles_papers_reports\/russian-soft-power-in-france\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">According<\/a> to the paper \u201cRussian Soft Power in France: Assessing Moscow\u2019s Cultural and Business Para-diplomacy\u201d released by the Carnegie Council, Moscow uses print media in France to develop and reinforce its cultural and business ties. Three main approaches were identified:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Establishing partnership with reliable and authoritative French editions <\/strong>\u2013 Like many European daily newspapers, Le Figaro used to publish monthly Russian supplements in partnership with Russian state-owned newspaper \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u0413\u0430\u0437\u0435\u0442\u0430. Since 2017, Valeurs actuelles, a French weekly news magazine with a liberal-conservative tendency, which represents a successful example of right wing press, also publishes Russian-language supplement. The French quarterly edition Conflicts, which specializes on geopolitics, clearly pursues a pro-Russian course.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Links with alternative press<\/strong> \u2013 A lot of online editions are being created on Russian and French domains, also in partnership with far-right groups, whose audience is mostly small and involves that part of French electorate, which is skeptical about mainstream media outlets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Creation of a media product tailored to national context <\/strong>\u2013 Some platforms like RT and Sputnik are mainly oriented to disseminating biased views about France\u2019s domestic and foreign policies and covering the positions of Russian officials. Their influence further increases through social networks and at the expense of web portals that are well-tailored to online search engines (Twitter: RT \u2013 78 000 subscribers; Sputnik \u2013 46 000 subscribers).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>NATO StratCom study: How Russian media platforms use entertainment and comedy TV shows<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The study released by the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence in 2017 provides a comprehensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stratcomcoe.org\/stratcom-laughs-search-analytical-framework\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">analysis<\/a> about the use of Russian media outlets\u2019 entertainment and comedy TV shows in the Kremlin\u2019s strategic communications.<\/p>\n<p>The entertainment and comedy TV shows portray the world beyond Russian borders as a hostile world. Russian comedy shows voiced similar messages humorously in a period when the Russian government expressed protest over the deployment of defense systems in Eastern European countries.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasis was also laid on individuality and uniqueness of Russian culture, as well as on \u201cthe mystic Russian soul\u201d and \u201cleading Russian culture\u201d as a factor uniting \u201cRussian world.\u201d Discrediting western media through accusing it of Russophobia and disseminating parodic content that is homophobic in nature is yet another direction.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-9969\" alt=\"&quot;\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"4a3fd980-47c3-4a5b-84cb-ac20eb2240b4\" src=\"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/inline-images_ztj.JPG\" width=\"545\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/inline-images_ztj.JPG 545w, https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/inline-images_ztj-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#4e5f70;\"><strong>RT: Look at how cruel Russian propaganda is being created <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-9974\" alt=\"&quot;\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"f45dc23e-4c02-4772-8778-b6b7eac6506b\" src=\"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/inline-images_ztjs.JPG\" width=\"456\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/inline-images_ztjs.JPG 456w, https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/inline-images_ztjs-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#4e5f70;\"><strong>\u041a\u0412\u041d, 2015: The Americans propagandize LGBT issues <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fictional characters and fake stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amid an ongoing conflict in Ukraine, Russian televisions aired \u201cnews stories\u201d which <a href=\"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/myth\/rogor-qmnis-rusuli-media-mithebs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had nothing<\/a><strong> to do with the reality<\/strong>. In 2015, Russia\u2019s Channel One broadcasted a report in which a woman told how a little boy from Slaviansk was crucified by Ukrainian soldiers.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;They took the child of three years, the little boy in shorts, in a t-shirt and crucified him as Jesus on a bulletin board. And then they took his mother, bound her to the tank and carried her out for three circles on the square,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Channel One eventually admitted that journalists had no proof that the story was true, but never apologized or officially withdrew the report.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2015, Russian TV channels aired a story about a 10-year-old girl, who died after the Ukrainians opened artillery fire in Donetsk. Interviewed respondents were shocked about the death of the young girl and dubbed the Kiev government as \u201cthe Nazi Junta.\u201d The BBC News team decided to check the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w5x025OTbuo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">information<\/a> and found out that <strong>the girl actually had not died<\/strong>, as one of Russian TV reporters confirmed, and that they simply had to air the story, because \u201c<strong>they had to act this way<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>{&#8220;preview_thumbnail&#8221;:&#8221;\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview\/public\/video_thumbnails\/w5x025OTbuo.jpg?itok=TMvZhkt7&#8243;,&#8221;video_url&#8221;:&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w5x025OTbuo&#8221;,&#8221;settings&#8221;:{&#8220;responsive&#8221;:1,&#8221;width&#8221;:&#8221;854&#8243;,&#8221;height&#8221;:&#8221;480&#8243;,&#8221;autoplay&#8221;:0},&#8221;settings_summary&#8221;:[&#8220;Embedded Video (Responsive).&#8221;]}<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>RT: Coverage of the 2008 August War <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In their coverage of the 2008 Russian aggression against Georgia, Russian TV channels delivered a narrative that the Georgians carried out genocide of South Ossetian people and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/files\/documents\/ICA_2017_01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">killed<\/a> peaceful population. Later, Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the English-language Russia Today said in the interview with <strong>Russian daily Kommersant that when &#8220;the Ministry of Defense was at war with Georgia,&#8221; RT was &#8220;waging an information war against the entire Western world.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Prepared by Dali Kurdadze and Misho Korshia<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#c0392b;\">Myth Detector Laboratory<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his interview with Obieqtivi TV on March 29, 2018, MP Nukri Kantaria of the ruling Georgian Dream party spoke about Russian TV channels and noted that Georgian culture as a diplomatic means of emotional influence is not properly used in the relations with Russia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15309],"tags":[18234,18236],"country":[],"violation":[],"topic":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9979"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=9979"},{"taxonomy":"violation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/violation?post=9979"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}