Book release in Kyiv - Iryna Avramenko
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Yak VdomaThe struggle for the independence and integrity of Ukraine does not only have territorial and physical implications. This struggle is an existential one, including identity. Russia, in addition to aggression with weapons, also uses other tools to suppress the ability of Ukrainians to resist physically, intellectually and emotionally.
In this context, Ukrainian journalists have armed themselves with methods and tools to analyze and monitor public speeches transmitted by officials, the business environment, artists and journalists. The objective is to highlight the sincerity with which some representatives of these categories approach the Russian aggression against Ukrainian citizens.
At the Yak Vdoma Hub project, Bucharest, implemented by CFI Medias in Romania, Iryna Avramenko, a Ukrainian journalist and Teaching Assistant at the University of Customs and Finance, Dnipropetrovsk, brought a unique perspective as a beneficiary between January and April. Her focus was on the messages sent by the Russian media workers who emigrated outside the Russian Federation. Avramenko's research involved monitoring messages, speeches, and narratives transmitted by Russian journalists and people of culture who declared against the war, but which at the same time cannot be detached from the essence of the Russian state.
After several months of academic research combined with journalistic methods, Iryna Avramenko, together with her colleague Nataliia Steblina, managed to publish valuable material. This material, which will serve as a basis for other studies, is a significant contribution to the media development. It will also help in defining recommendations for those that objectively analyze the evolution and promotion of propaganda narratives through people who officially declare themselves against the war.
The book 'Deconstructing the Truth' is an ambitious approach to research how the opposition press in Russia, especially the one in exile, informs the public about the Russian aggression against Ukraine. The authors have managed to organize the results of their research in a way that makes it accessible to all those who study and analyze how political actors use information to win over the minds of ordinary people.
