Digital technologies of external destructive informational and psychological impact on residents of Russian regions bordering Ukraine

The article discusses digital technologies of external destructive information and psychological influence on the constituent entities of the Russian Federation bordering Ukraine: Belgorod, Bryansk, Zaporozhye, Kursk and Kherson regions, Donetsk People’s Republic, and Lugansk People’s Republic. The authors used cognitive mapping to study an array of publications of relevant content in relevant Telegram channels. As a result, key digital ways of achieving external destructive information and psychological influence have been identified, which are technological methods of information propaganda and manipulation of public consciousness. Propaganda most often uses the techniques of demonization and stigmatization, and manipulation uses negativization, primitivization, tendentious selection of information and parasitism. At the same time, most often in information materials of a deconsolidating nature, which provoke ethnic and socio-economic splits, the manipulative technique of primitivization is used.

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