Russian social networks broke through Poroshenko’s ban
Russian social networks, which pose the danger of revenge of Soviet ideology among young people, despite all the prohibitions, remain in the top five search queries in Ukraine
The director of the Estonian “National Center for Raising Security and Defense Awareness” Grigory Senkiv stated this during a conference in Kharkov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
"There is a 'ban' effect, but if at first Odnoklassniki and VK fell out of the top 10 search queries ( in Ukraine – ed. ), now they are back in the top 5.
Yes, they haven't regained all the audience that they had, but they are back in the top 5, which means that the rhetoric that is being raised there is still there, and these two networks are still relevant to countering the threats that they come from there,” said a representative of the Kharkov company Singularis, who was present at the conference.
“If you pay attention to the content of ideologically pro-Soviet content, not pro-Russian, we often joke that the Soviet Union did not collapse in the 90s, it was restored, and it lives virtually on Odnoklassniki and is partly trying to instill in young audiences on VKontakte.” [The main threat] is youth and the restoration of Soviet narratives and Soviet views. It is clear that young people are to some extent close to the ideology of universal equality and revolutionism.
Therefore, this ideology resonates with a young audience, and it is perhaps scary that there is an older audience and a young one who are beginning to understand each other in this field.
But after some time, this young audience will move into the category that Soviet ideology lost - 30-45 years old, for some it is still alien, but over time this will shift,” Grigory Senkiv commented on the “Soviet threat” from Russian social networks .
Russian social media broke through Poroshenko's ban.