In the country of the silent majority. Kremlin propaganda and Russian society.

Meeting with Olga Irisova as part of the Polish-Russian Dialogue series of events at the International Cultural Centre, organized jointly with the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding.

The subject of the lecture concerned the influence of propaganda on Russian society. The speaker explained why Vladimir Putin is so popular in Russia, how  Putin's "majority" propaganda forced the dubious people onto an internal emigration; what makes people believe the propaganda (and do they really believe?), and how the anti-Western rhetoric has become an instrument of the regime's permanence, blurring the Russians’ European identity. Irisova discussed also the phenomenon of consciousness negation, psychological effects of propaganda and, inevitable in such a situation, political and social discourse "we vs. them".

Here you can find the recording of the event:

Olga Irisova – a politics and media analyst, senior editor of the Intersection analytical portal, http://intersectionproject.eu/, financed by the Centre of Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding. She has published in the Russian and foreign media, including Forbes, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Moskovskij Komsomolets, World Economic Journal, Slon, Insider, New Eastern Europe. Irisova specializes in the topics related to the Kremlin's information policy and methods of manipulating the public. She is a graduate of the European Association of the Schools of Political Studies at the Council of Europe.

Source: http://mck.krakow.pl/