Who is targeted by Putin’s propaganda and how does it work? What is “hybrid war,” and how is it related to the concept of the “Russian World”? Who is responsible for propaganda at the technical level, and how exactly does propagandistic journalism function? Who are Russia’s allies in terms of ideology and where do the main threats may come from? Finally: Is it possible to resist information war, and what are the best methods for fighting the Kremlin’s disinformation campaigns?

In this book, Ukrainian political scientist Mykola Davydiuk discusses these and other questions. In an accessible manner, the author shares his experience of resisting media propaganda. He gives examples of how people are being manipulated and explains how to avoid the role of a puppet in the Russian hybrid theater.

The book will is especially valuable for those who care about the current developments in Ukraine and the information space its citizens live in, as well as for those who take an interest in politics, not waiting until politics takes an interest in them.

Mykola Davydiuk (Author) Mykola Davydiuk studied at the Drahomanov Pedagogical University of Kyiv and holds a PhD in political science. He was a visiting fellow at the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw and Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Davydiuk is Director of the “Politics” think-tank, author of the book How to Make Ukraine Successful (in Ukrainian; Smoloskyp 2018), initiator of the “Boycott the Russian Market” campaign, and founder of the New Political Leaders Forum. He is also an activist engaged in the reconstruction of the destroyed Ukrainian city of Borodianka. Davydiuk runs a popular Youtube channel about politics, with hundreds of thousands of viewers. In 2024, the Ukrainian magazine Fokus put him among the “Top 50 Bloggers of Ukraine.”
Roman Kostenko (Foreword by) Roman Kostenko is Secretary of the Ukrainian Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, Member of the Ukrainian Parliament of the 9th convocation. He is the only MP who went to the frontlines in the first days of Russia’s full-scale invasion. In October 2022, he was included in the list of the 25 most influential Ukrainian military figures by the Ukrainian magazine NV.