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The objectives of the Laboratory have become even more relevant during Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. Among them are: system-based training of highly-qualified personnel in mounting information and hybrid warfare, including operations intended to seize initiatives on a strategic and tactic level; development of a system approach to combat information and hybrid warfare on a national and international level; organization of studies in this field (combating...

Belarus faced an enormous pressure on its sovereignty and independence in 2020. And now the onslaught continues. An important event is ahead - the referendum. If the Belarusian people show their unity, they will vote for an updated Constitution so that the country could maintain its independence and sovereignty.  That opinion was shared by Russian political analyst Andrei Manoilo with the channel Belarus 1.    Andrei Manoilo , political scientist, professor at Lomonosov Moscow State...

Often policy-makers and, in general, decision-makers do not lack advise or information; they are in many respects overwhelmed by advice and information. They do lack analyses, syntheses, and mainly criteria on which to base judgments. In the absence of suitable analyses, syntheses, and standards, all advice tends to become equivalent, and, ultimately, pragmatism and factionalism prevail. The dilemma of policy is not so much that it cannot act on what it has defined as useful and...

Author: Andrey V. Manoilo – 09/06/2021 Abstract Objective. A study of the latest practices (forms, methods, tools, and technologies) of information operations, specificities of their hybridization, as well as the newest forms and methods of counteroperation. Procedures and Methods. The increasing militarization of the information space leads to changes in the views toward forceful methods of changing the geopolitical balance. This, in turn, results in genuine technological...

The Russian Embassy in the United States has already called the accusations against Moscow baseless. They recalled that Vladimir Putin offered to restore bilateral relations in the field of international information security, but Russia did not receive a response from the United States According to Reuters and the Washington Post, Russian hackers broke into the systems of the US Department of the Treasury and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a division of...

By Andrey V. Manoylo End of August 2019 the United States was in the epicenter of a large scale international scandal. The cause of the scandal was failure of a covert operation of the American intelligence service which aimed to ensure penetration of its secret agents in the inner circle of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro (with the purpose of his subsequent ousting from the presidential post). As a result of the unexpected panic which Bogota CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)...

The CIA disclosed some state secrets to use them as a decoy The New York Times (NYT), an influential American newspaper, published an article entitled “Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill US Troops, Intelligence Says”. Referring to their own sources in the US Intelligence, the authors of this article (Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt, Michael Schwirtz) argue that Russian military intelligence (the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, the...

There is clarity that the Chinese did something typically characteristic of China – “Attempted a stab in the back”. Post the agreement of 06 Jun, the Chinese pretended to disengage from the Galwan Area. In doing so, they lured a small party of 16 BIHAR into a premeditated ambush. When reinforcements led by the CO of 16 BIHAR came to the rescue of the ambushed party, they were apparently attacked by a larger Chinese party in hiding. Further reinforcements from the battalion and 3 Medium...

Andrey V. Manoylo on 2020-05-23 How the US are Trying to Capture Venezuelan Drug Terrorists That Work for the United States of America There is a rule in crime detection: While investigating any crime the most important thing is not to close in on oneself. I.e. if you are an operational officer of police or special services and you investigate an incident you cannot let it so happen that the findings show that the perpetrators are actually backed by your own spy network (and...

Today, the attention of a significant part of scientific community is attracted to the study of principles of formation and implementation of the governmental policy in special conditions, including its forms, methods and mechanisms for responding to new challenges and threats in the field of information. Today, such challenges and threats include, first of all, information, hybrid and trade wars , including their structural components, i.e., information and psychological operations (as...