Turanskyi M. Information and psychological support of the operation for the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation: historical background and practical implementation

The purpose of the study is a comprehensive analysis of information and psychological measures for the annexation and incorporation of the ARC by the Russian Federation in 2014. The object of the study is the annexation and incorporation by the Russian Federation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in February-March 2014. The subject of the study is the peculiarities of the measures to implement the IPSO in the framework of the campaign to seize the Crimean peninsula by Russia. The epistemological basis of the study was taken by general scientific, special scientific methods, first of all, special-historical methods, which contributed to the purposeful study and objective coverage of historical processes in Ukraine and, in particular, on the Crimean peninsula. The events in the ARC were covered on the basis of a comprehensive study of sources and scientific literature. In the methodological approach to the material under consideration, the principles of objectivity, complexity, historicism were applied.