Some ideas about information war technologies (By the example of the aggressive media campaign against police officers of the Interior Ministry’s anticorruption department
The article is devoted to study of the peculiarities of the information war against the Anticorruption Department officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation being kept in the pre-trial prison of Lefortovo. The division was engaged in investigation of corruption crimes of the high-ranking officials. As a result of this struggle the Anticorruption Department officers were arrested themselves. The yesterday's heroes became criminals, and now the mass media uses the information war technologies against them. The article deals with the main technologies of the information war against the former officials of the Anticorruption Department. Firstly, it is the method of inversion. Secondly, journalists apply two other technologies: exaggeration and distortion of the facts within the information war against the former Anticorruption Department officials. In addition, compiling and analyzing the materials for the article we tried to find the answer to the question: «Who are the audience of the information against the former Anticorruption Department officials?». Except scientific materials and monographs the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the article of the author published in one of the anticorruption periodicals and the interview with the former Head of the Anticorruption Department general Denis Sugrobov, were used while preparing the article.