Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Peter Pomerantsev: Can Ukraine win its information war with Russia?
A couple watches the TV broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual televised question-and-answer session with the nation in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, on April 17, 2014.
Vladimir Putin may be playing cat and mouse with Ukraine on the military front, but Russia has long mobilized the big battalions in its international information war: the Kremlin spends hundreds of millions of dollars on English-language broadcasting, intellectual influencers, PR firms, and cultural-diplomacy campaigns.