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Ukrainian diaspora losing media war against Russia

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• published: 12 Apr 2015
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Remarks by Dr. Taras Kuzio, Senior Research Associate, Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto, Canada, 10 April 2015. - Ukrainian diaspora in North America cannot compete with disinformation and PR efforts from Moscow, Russia. Russians have a massive ideological and disinformation campaign, e.g. Russia Today RT television - 1:05 Weak public relations response by Ukrainian diaspora in the United States and Canada. Diaspora never invested in contemporary issues - 1:45 Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI), Columbia University, Jacyk Centre, Hrushevsky Translation Project, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) - 2:30 Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa, Dominique Arel - 3:10 Scarcity of human resources, intellectual capital, on politics, economics, international relations - 3:35 HURI blase dealing with media on Ukraine, Euromaidan, Ivory tower academics - 4:10 Ill suited Ukrainian academics appearing on media cannot address issues on contemporary Ukraine, international relations, Prof. John Mearsheimer - 4:40 Lack of influence in public media and academia from individuals and organizations associated with OUN, League of Ukrainian Canadians, Stepan Bandera who have not invested into politics - 5:30 John Paul Himka, Per Rudling, Ukrainian nationalism - 5:47 Prof. Paul Robert Magocsi - 6:25 Chrystia Freeland, Borys Wrzesnewskyj from PLAST community enter field of federal politics, people from CYM do not enter politics - 7:10 Ukrainian Ghettoization: Dr. Kuzio has delivered 250-300 interviews for media outlets throughout the word (including Chinese media outlets) but has never been asked by Toronto Ukrainian cable shows, e.g. Forum TV, Kontakt Ukrainian television - 8:23 Amnesty International, seperatists executing Ukrainian prisoners - 8:40 Absense of writers, bloggers, writing influential articles on Ukraine with exception to Alexander Motyl, Adrian Kartanycky - 10:01 Chrystia Freeland is constrained by what she can express (potential future Foreign Minister of Canada) - 10:40 Hybrid-war, cyber warfare, information warfare against Russia needs to be countered - 11:11 Valentina Lisitsa issue not just a question of free speech - 12:40 Ukrainian Canadian Congress needs to invest in journalism, public relations (PR), politics, encourage people to enter in these areas, provide resources - 14:10 Importance of YouTube and video blogs, Ukrainian community far behind in addressing new media and social media: Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube - 15:00 Independent efforts that are not controlled are not encouraged - 15:49 Ukrainian Studies Fund do not provide resources for social media, video blogs - 16:37 Ukrainians are not very influential in Ottawa and Washington D.C., Washington should have been a target for Ukrainians; IMF, World Bank, but no established centre of Ukrainian studies. Pro-Russian lobby at Carlton University, Ottawa. Russophiles and Ukrainiophobes at the University of Ottawa. Should we continue to invest into the chair of Ukrainian Studies at the Univesity of Ottawa that permits views on Ukrainian nationalism extracted from a Soviet textbook? - 18:35 Strategic plan need to be prepared on politics, academia, journalism, communications, networking. Ukrainian embassies and consulated are hopeless when networking with people. Ukrainian cable TV in Toronto interview people in their own community as opposed to reaching out to other people - 19:30 Vladimir Putin Thank you to St. Vladimir Institute (Lidia Smilka) at the University of Toronto for the recording venue http://www.stvladimir.ca Taras Kuzio http://taraskuzio.net This video was not sponsored 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%E2%80%9315_Russian_military_intervention_in_Ukraine 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea, Ukraine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Crimean_crisis Euromaidan / Maidan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromaidan