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Aliev D.F. The socio-cultural nature of the concept of «hybrid warfare». Journal of Social Policy, Population Preservation and Reproductivity. 2022; 1(2). Available at: https://spnjournal.ru/PDF/02SPN222.pdf (in Russian).

The socio-cultural nature of the concept of «hybrid warfare»

Aliev Dzhomart Fazylovich
Russian State Social University, Moscow, Russia
E-mail: AlievDF@rgsu.net

Abstract. The changing political situation in the world, which is taking place everywhere, has led to a global transformation of international relations. Foreign mass media and some domestic publications systematically accuse the Russian Federation of waging a «hybrid war» against a sovereign state — Ukraine. Moreover, Ukrainian «specialists» are working most actively in this vein. In their numerous «scientific» and journalistic works, they propose to consider this type of active (primarily aggressive) interstate confrontation as exclusively the brainchild of Russian military thought. At the same time, in the same «works», the authors refer to foreign primary sources, without feeling a «cognitive dissonance» in the argumentation and content of their conclusions. The paradoxical nature of which is obvious — «Russia, which is militarily and technically backward», has been implementing «against Ukraine for many years», «a new type of military aggression — hybrid war». The analysis of Ukrainian sources allowed the author to trace the terminological and substantive inconsistency of the newly-appeared «specialists» in the field of «hybrid» confrontation. This kind of «research» is replete with historical excursions and emotionally colored precedents characterizing the danger and duration of hybrid confrontation. Deliberate distortion of historical facts, determined by the «exclusivity» of a certain ethno-social group, leads not only to an inadequate interpretation of them, but also creates the illusion of a qualitative assessment of certain social processes and phenomena. All this creates a new paradigm of socio-cultural relations conditioned by the mental contradictions of «east-west». Where Ukrainians are represented by it as an advanced outpost of the Western world on the border with the Russian Federation. The facts given in the article will help to understand the essence of the processes that are currently taking place.

Keywords: hybrid war; hybrid threat; socio-cultural identity; historical facts; ethno-social group; mass media; journalistic works

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