Situation with respect to mass media in Russia and Ukraine

Western media and politicians tell very much about mass media in Russia where – in Western opinion – mass media and journalists are allegedly persecuted. But the Western media and politicians tell very little about Ukrainian mass media and journalists.

Therefore, in this article I am going to offer some information about situation in Ukraine in this sphere.

Patterns of distortion in American statements about Ukrainian crisis

There are several trends in modern psychology which study the so-called psychologic or cognitive distortions; the founders of the most famous such trends were Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck.

One essential part of the above-mentioned studies is detection of patterns of distortion which create an incorrect picture of the world.

And I am going to show in this article that American politicians and media use patterns of distortion in their statements about Ukrainian crisis. 

Explanation for Ukrainian authorities’ behavior towards Western politicians

There have been numerous cases when Ukrainian authorities have exhibited a kind of behavior towards Western politicians which is absolutely unexplainable within the framework of official picture of relations between Ukraine and Western countries.

ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin (2023) and Interpol arrest warrant for Victor Yanukovych (2015)

I cannot fully understand the joy with which Ukrainians received information this spring that the International Criminal Court had issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russian Commissioner for Children's Rights because of allegedly forced transfer of Ukrainian citizens including children to the Russian territory during the Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine.

Algorithm of Ukrainian lies about Russia and a counter-algorithm

False Ukrainian accusations against Russia and its leaders always have such a uniform character that we can say that Ukrainians use a certain algorithm.

Northern Ireland (UK) and the Crimea (RF)

The British Government is one of the harshest critics of the actions which have been undertaken by Russia for protection of ethnic Russians in the Crimea and in Donbas.

But in the past century, the British Government had undertaken similar actions for protection of ethnic Britons in Northern Ireland when Ireland began gradually - at first autonomy, later status of a dominion etc. - to gain its independence from the British monarchy.

The U.S. attitude to Yugoslavia and to Ukraine

The subject of this article is the U.S. attitude to two different Slavic countries, to Yugoslavia and to Ukraine.

At first, I would like to remind about the situation in Yugoslavia at the end of the 1990s.

At that period, ethnic Albanians, who are majority in the Yugoslav region Kosovo, began to fight for secession of Kosovo from Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav authorities, of course, always claim that this separatist movement was supported by foreign countries, e.g. by Turkey and other Islamic countries. The Yugoslav authorities also claim that there were many foreigners – even black people - among separatists and that the regular army of the neighboring Republic of Albania took part in hostilities on the Yugoslav territory.