Information Power and Russia’s National Security Objectives

Russia’s operations in the information domain are an integral part of interactions international environment. As one levers national power, work concert with all other power to achieve a defined list security objectives. Judging from pronouncements, policies, doctrine, and actions, it appears that objectives are: 1) Protect Putin regime; 2) Control post-Soviet space; 3) Counterweigh unipolar actor world; 4) Portray Russia as indispensable player world affairs; 5) Divide disrupt North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) European Union (EU). Russian can be traced through themes directly those Some address multiple simultaneously, methods for communication differ based on target. However, not standalone activities but overarching