propaganda in the Russian Federation
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The <entity_0> is <entity_1> that promotes views, perceptions or agendas of the government of <entity_2>. Contemporary Russian <entity_1> focuses on promoting a cult of personality around Vladimir Putin and the Russian government has also been highly actives in debates on Soviet history; <entity_2> has established a number of organizations such as the Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of <entity_2>'s Interests, the Russian web brigades and others than engage in political <entity_1> to promote the views of the Putin government. At the end of 2008, Lev Gudkov, based on the Levada Center polling data, pointed out the near-disappearance of public opinion as a socio-political institution in contemporary <entity_2> and its replacement with the <entity_1>. A CBS News story on the launch of <entity_2> Today quoted Boris Kagarlitsky as saying it was "very much a continuation of the old Soviet <entity_1> services". Putin's <entity_2>'s <entity_1> is "aggressive and deceptive... worse than anything I witnessed in the Soviet Union" In 2014, Ivan Zassoursky, a professor of Media and Theory of Communications in the Journalism Department of Moscow State University, said that: "Today there are many complex schemes of influence in the world that can be labeled as soft power. Following <entity_2>'s 2014 annexation of Crimea, a significant increase in Russian <entity_1> was noted by NATO. Political scholar Nikolay Kozhanov has claimed that <entity_2> has used <entity_1> to convey nationalistic as well as pro-Assad messages during the Syrian Civil War. Kozhanov claims that <entity_2> has made an effort through <entity_1> to paint <entity_2> and Syria as a stable force "in the struggle against instability caused by the Americans and terrorism supported by the US regional partners." <entity_2> has been accused of using social media platforms to spread messssages of <entity_1> to a global audience by spreading fake news as well as putting out advertisements and creating pseudo-activist movements. <entity_2> was accused by the U.S. authorities for efforts to spread fake news and <entity_1> in an attempt to meddle in the 2016 US Presidential Election. <entity_2> has been accused of engaging in <entity_1> campaigns in an effort to sway public opinion concerning the nation's annexation of Crimea in 2014. Discussing the Ukrainian crisis in 2014, John Kerry, United States Secretary of State, referred to RT as a state-sponsored "<entity_1> bullhorn" and continued, "<entity_2> Today network has deployed to promote president Putin's fantasy about what is playing out on the ground.
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