Given the massive agricultural, industrial and scientific prospects for the revival of Ukraine that are a part of the longstanding Schiller Institute (SI) published economic solutions, one has to wonder as to what is on the mind of Ukraine’s “Center for Countering Disinformation” (CCD) and its recent hysterical reactions to several key speakers at the May 26 SI conference, “The Insanity of Politicians Threatens Nuclear War.” It may not be Ukraine’s well-being. (https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2022/06/03/video-nato-responds-to-senator-richard-black-and-helga-zepp-larouche/)
The CCD is a wholly-owned operation of the Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (NSDC). It was conceived on March 11, 2021 with the NSDC’s “On the creation of the Center for Countering Disinformation,” and it was birthed on March 19, 2021 with President Zelenskyy’s Presidential Decree #106, explicitly to deal with threats from the “information sphere.” And, yes, that is “Newspeak” for what used to be mocked as a “Ministry of Truth.”
Of relevance, the NSDC has just moved, in February 2021, to eliminate political discourse in Ukraine, under claims of “national security” and emergency powers. In short order, 11 political parties were eliminated and opposition newspapers, radio and television stations were seized and shut down. “Extrajudicial powers” were invoked to circumvent legal procedures and courtrooms. Opponents were arrested, and in the case Victor Medvedchuk, the head of the largest opposition parliamentary faction (Opposition Platform-For Life), charged with treason. (Charges of treason were based upon making arrangements of purchases of coal from the Donbass for use in the rest of Ukraine.) When a leading jurist pointed out that these actions were unconstitutional, Zelenskyy simply fired him.
The very day that Zelenskyy’s decree established the CCD was also the day that Ukraine—via Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba—adopted the new policy for settling the Crimea and Donbass matters: No negotiation, nothing but a military solution. So, the CCD is rightly viewed as a wartime “Ministry of Truth.”
The first two (of eleven) announced “main objectives” were “conducting analysis and monitoring events and phenomena in the information space of Ukraine, the state of information security and its presence in the global information space” and “identifying and researching current and projected threats to the information security of Ukraine, the factors influencing their formation, predicting and assessing the consequences for the security of Ukraine’s national interests.…”
The NSDC that conceived and runs the CCD was an early seat of power for the neo-Nazi faction of the Maidan demonstrators. On February 27, 2014, five days after seizing power in Kiev, Andriy Parubiy—the cofounder of the Social-National Party (1991) and a commander on the Maidan (2014)—assumed the leadership of the NSDC. The man who, unelected, had assumed the Presidency, Oleksandr Turchynov, would follow Parubiy in December 2014, as the next head of the NSDC—running the show there for the next 4.5 years. When Zelenskyy was inaugurated in 2019, Oleksiy Danilov took over, presiding over the February/March 2021 coup against the constitution.
Prior to the CCD, Ukraine’s war against “disinformation” was managed by “StopFake,” set up in 2014 by Evgeny Fedchenko, an open supporter of the neo-Nazi “C14” gang of thugs, and financed by the British Embassy in Kyiv, along with the National Endowment of Democracy. Their lead “researcher,” Marko Suprun, is, to put it politely, a hardcore Banderite, who had served in his native Winnipeg, Canada, on the board of the Organization for the Defense of Four Freedoms of Ukraine, an OUN-B front group. And less politely, Suprun is a literal “blood brother” of both Andriy “Ukraine is the motherland of the Aryan race” Sereda and Arseniy Bilodub, the lead “singer” of a “hate-core band,” advertised as a Ukrainian “white power rock” group. (Bilodub made his money, however, as founder of SvaStone, marketing clothes with the Nazi “Black Sun” insignia.) Of note, Nina Jankowicz, the recently dismissed head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s “paused” Disinformation Governance Board, cut her teeth in the “disinformation” business in Kyiv with Suprun at StopFake.
Suprun has exposed, over the years, the “disinformation” of both Lyndon and Helga LaRouche, long before the CCD joined the game. However, the CCD was created for the hotter phase of war and with much tighter coordination with NATO. Evidently, the most recent Schiller conference constituted a threat to their “information space.”
