On the issue of choosing optimal ways to overcome crisis phenomena in the field of political communications against the background of large-scale military aggression

Sobre la cuestión de la elección de las formas óptimas de superar los fenómenos de crisis en el ámbito de la comunicación política en el contexto de una agresión militar a gran escala

• Serhii Stavchenko Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Dnipro, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4091-868X
• Оlexandr Tokovenko Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Dnipro, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1721-2205
• Hanna Topchii National Guard of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3077-4942
• Vitaly Loginov Cherkasy State Technological University, Cherkasy city, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6131-0737

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.4075.54

Keywords: political communication, overcoming the crisis, large-scale military aggression, information context, Russian-Ukrainian war

Abstract

The paper examines the choice of optimal ways of overcoming crisis phenomena in the sphere of political communication in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Special attention was paid to the theoretical explanation of the phenomenon of political communication in terms of its scope and practical usefulness. The article analyzes the features of the conduct of an information war by the Russian Federation. The purpose was to investigate the optimal ways of overcoming crisis phenomena (large- scale military aggression) by means of the tool of political communication. The article is based on the use of two types of research methods: general scientific (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction) and special political (structural-functional, historical, etc.). The obtained results allow us to conclude that, on the basis of the analysis of the Russian-Ukrainian war, communication solutions should be aimed at fulfilling three tasks: neutralizing negative information, editing it and disseminating alternative information. The work of communicators during the war has certain limitations caused by their  subordination to the military command. Definitely, the problem of the Russian-Ukrainian war demonstrated the existence of a considerable number of problematic issues in political communication in Ukraine and the world.

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