A platform policy implementation audit of actions against Russia’s state-controlled media

Editorial: Foresight for democratising Russia

“…Forget your personal knowledge or experience -the Supreme Guide knows better." (Khrushchova, 2023) When looking back to my decades in Russia, the essence of what I perceived there is the creation of an unconventional, artificial concept of what is real: not Augustinus' (354-430) and Thomas Aquinas' (1225-1274) concept of "veritas est adaequatio rei et intellectus" (truth is the adequacy of things and their mental representations in the intellect") constitutes the fundamental concept of truth and thus of a human society (and encourages to discourse, debate and democracy (Haran and Burkovsky, 2023;Ahamer and Mayer, 2013;Ahamer and Schrei, 2006;Glazunova et al, 2023), but rather a completely new narrative (or even outlandish myth) establishes a society, community, nation, and ideology: Those who declare they believe our expectations of accepted narratives are 'ours' (= наши = nashi, in Russian and any Slavic language [Petrov, (2023), p.8]) and those who do not declare 'belief' fall out of this 'society' and deserve to be outlawed and ultimately even poisoned as traitors -the most evil and annihilating verdict when having a secret-agent's imprinting of consciousness. Notabene, it is by no means required to exactly believe, only to pretend to believe.…”