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Counter Disinformation and Media Development (CDMD) programme 'supports HMG's Russia Strategy's objective to protect UK national security by reducing the harm to democracy and the rules-based international order caused by Russia's information operations.'<ref name="CSSF">[https://web.archive.org/web/20220524084628/https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1003218/Counter_Disinformation_and_Media_Development_programme_summary_2020_to_2021.odt CSSF PROGRAMME SUMMARY: PROGRAMME TITLE: Counter Disinformation and Media Development Programme] Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 24 May 2022.</ref> It is funded by the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] a fund used to support hundred of overt and covert propaganda projects by [[MI6]], the Foreign Office and other government departments.
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Counter Disinformation and Media Development (CDMD) programme in existence between 2016 and 2022 at least was based in the [[HMG Russia Unit]] of the [[Eastern Europe and Central Asa Directive]] of the [[FCDO]].  It 'supports HMG's Russia Strategy's objective to protect UK national security by reducing the harm to democracy and the rules-based international order caused by Russia's information operations.'<ref name="CSSF">[https://web.archive.org/web/20220524084628/https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1003218/Counter_Disinformation_and_Media_Development_programme_summary_2020_to_2021.odt CSSF PROGRAMME SUMMARY: PROGRAMME TITLE: Counter Disinformation and Media Development Programme] Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 24 May 2022.</ref> It is funded by the [[Conflict, Stability and Security Fund]] a fund used to support hundred of covert propaganda projects by [[MI6]], and other intelligence agencies.  The whole programme is under the authority of the [[National Security Secretariat]] in the [[Cabinet Office]].
  
 
The programme was formerly called the [[Russian Language Programme]]<ref>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/630285/Russian_Language_EECAD_2017.pdf</ref>
 
The programme was formerly called the [[Russian Language Programme]]<ref>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/630285/Russian_Language_EECAD_2017.pdf</ref>

Revision as of 14:42, 31 December 2025

Counter Disinformation and Media Development (CDMD) programme in existence between 2016 and 2022 at least was based in the HMG Russia Unit of the Eastern Europe and Central Asa Directive of the FCDO. It 'supports HMG's Russia Strategy's objective to protect UK national security by reducing the harm to democracy and the rules-based international order caused by Russia's information operations.'[1] It is funded by the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund a fund used to support hundred of covert propaganda projects by MI6, and other intelligence agencies. The whole programme is under the authority of the National Security Secretariat in the Cabinet Office.

The programme was formerly called the Russian Language Programme[2]

The CSSF Summary states:

The UK does not seek to fight propaganda with propaganda. Instead, the UK promotes circulation and access to accurate information and positive engagement with those impacted by Russian disinformation. CSSF is best placed to deliver on this, as it brings together skills and resources from across the UK Government, along with external expertise.
The Russian Government invests heavily in propaganda, and information operations are integral to their foreign and defence strategies and have been utilised regularly e.g. as part of illegal actions in Georgia and Ukraine and in relation to high profile intelligence agency operations exposed in Russia and abroad.[1]


Funding

People

Resources

See also

GCHQ

DCMS

Cabinet Office

MoD

FCO/FCDO

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