On January 22, at the invitation of our partner Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland), academic staff and students of the History Faculty of the K-PNU took part in a lecture by Françoise Dosse, a professor at the School of Advanced Social Sciences Studies (EHESS) in Paris and a member of the Center for Russian, Caucasian, East European and Central Asian Studies (CERCEC), on “How to create a network of authoritarianism in Russia? Runet between repression and surveillance in wartime”.
Françoise Dosse holds a bachelor’s degree in history (University of Rennes, 1991) and a master’s degree in political science (SciencesPo Paris, 1993). In 1999, she defended her PhD thesis in political science on “The relationship between the army and the government in post-Soviet Russia”. She was the director of the Franco-Russian Center for Social Sciences and Humanities in Moscow (2000-2002), and from 2004-2014 she was an associate professor at the University of Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. In 2011, she defended her habilitation (HDR) on state repression of civil society in Russia.
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The lecture was held in the format of a presentation. The professor drew attention to the development of the Internet in Russia from 2000 to 2022, the gradual transformation from a “democratic Internet” to complete subordination and the establishment of strict control by the Russian authorities over this network. The speech also touched upon the use of the Internet by the Russian regime in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. The speaker also discussed how Russia uses the Internet and information to wage its information war against European states. It was noted that over the past 15 years, they have spent a huge amount of money to further sow hatred among their citizens towards neighboring states.
Oleksandr Komarnitskyi,
Acting Dean of the Faculty of History, PhD