The article explores the phenomenon of memorial wars — conflicts around interpretations of historical events, commemorative practices, and symbolic content of public space. The main problem is to analyze the role of media memory in the context of digitalization, where historical narratives become a tool for shaping collective identity, legitimizing political projects and geopolitical confrontation. The author uses an interdisciplinary methodology combining qualitative approaches, as well as digital tools to study the visual and discursive aspects of memory.
The author identifies the mechanisms of memorial wars as a struggle for dominant interpretations of the past, reinforced by digital technologies and historical fakes. The analysis of cases (decommunization in Ukraine, the Black Lives Matter movement, the European Parliament resolution 2019) demonstrating the politicization of memory and its connection with ideological and geopolitical interests is carried out. The article also examines the role of social media as an arena of narrative competition, where emotional engagement and algorithmic selection exacerbate polarization.
The author concludes that media memory, despite the potential to democratize access to information, enhances the mythologization of history, turning it into a field of ideological battles. The digital environment contributes to the hybridization of memory, where official, alternative and marginal versions of the past coexist in conditions of increasing historical revision and conflict of interpretations.

The article is devoted to the review of the main strategies of historical knowledge falsification in the polycode space of mass communication and the analysis of the cognitive modeling within the framework of information-psychological impact exerted by communicators on the global audience. The relevance of the study is explained by the continuous rewriting of past events through the formation of media reality that distorts the historical truth, as well as by the fact that this erosive process undermines the fundamental foundations of the identity of the Russian state and its reputational image both inside and outside our society. The author identifies strategies of discrediting, silencing and building an alternative reality, which complement and replace each other in the process of falsification. The author considers socio-communicative phenomena arising from these strategies: culture of cancellation, mythologization, formation of the enemy image, construction of the semantic opposition “friend-foe”, etc.

The article explores the phenomenon of cognitivemental interventions (CMIs) as a tool of hybrid confrontation aimed at transforming consciousness, identity, and behavioral models within society. CMIs are defined as deliberate actions targeting the alteration of mental representations and cognitive matrices of individuals and social groups through the implantation of new meanings, frames, and value orientations. Particular attention is given to the threats these interventions pose to Russia, where their consequences may include the distortion of historical memory, the undermining of state legitimacy, growing social alienation, and ideological disorientation. The author substantiates the need for academic study of CMIs as a distinct form of influence in the context of hybrid warfare. A typology of approaches to cognitive warfare is proposed: pragmatic-military, political-expansionist, civilizationalideological, and national-patriotic. A significant part of research proposes specific examples of CMIs used against Russia, such as historical revisionism, media manipulation, cancel culture, humorous memefication, and others. The author emphasizes the necessity of developing a national strategy for cognitive security, strengthening cognitive resilience, and cultivating social immunity. The article aims to bridge the academic gap in the study of CMIs and to stimulate the development of effective countermeasures against these threats.

The article shows the peculiarities of modern world development in the context of military-political relations. The peculiarities of the geopolitical position of the Republic of Belarus, as well as trends in the development of the military-political situation are revealed. Attention is emphasized on the strengthening of the factor of interstate confrontation in international relations. Ensuring the security of the social system is conditioned by its dependence on the tools and technologies of force (destructive) impact on it. It is established that war as an extreme form of social violence is one of the forms of social existence. It is emphasized that the understanding of the philosophy of war is the starting point for the development of systemic measures to ensure national security. The peculiarities of the formation and development of philosophical understanding of war are revealed. The main regularities of modern violence are revealed. In the conditions of increasing military violence, the military sphere of national security plays a determining role in the preservation of the state. The main regular trends of military violence are defined and considered. Special attention is paid to the specifics of hybrid and mental warfare. The modern state of social existence can be characterized as world-war relations. The transformation of the philosophy of war indicates the change of paradigms of war and the widespread use of non-military measures in the military confrontation to achieve political goals. The conclusion is made about the need for an essential understanding of the philosophy of modern warfare, as well as the allocation of an independent scientific direction – philosophy of national security as a theoretical and methodological basis of activity in the sphere of society and state management.

The object of the study is “hybrid warfare”, the subject of the study is controlled migration as a possible component of “hybrid” wars. The article analyzes the volume and dynamics of migration processes in the modern world and, in comparison with the main components of “hybrid” actions, based on a comprehensive analysis, it is concluded that these processes can potentially be components of a “hybrid” confrontation. Using the methods of analysis and generalization, the article draws conclusions about how managed migration can fit into the components of a “hybrid” confrontation.: informational, economic, organizational, and military. Based on this analysis, it is concluded that the potential use of managed migration can be quite effective, and the features of this process make it possible to logically fit into all aspects of the “hybrid” war. The article uses the following research methods: analysis of the content of historical and regulatory documents contained in the public domain, synthesis of conclusions and proposals on possible manifestations and counteraction to managed migration as an integral part of the “hybrid” confrontation. Based on the analysis of statistics, it is concluded that controlled migration, if used as a component of a “hybrid” confrontation, has a number of features that make it difficult to mitigate the consequences of its use. Such features of managed migration as the legality of the methods used, secrecy, focus on the future, the ability to self-develop the situation, the use of modern technologies to implement management and maintain the process are formulated. Taking into account these features, a generalized algorithm of possible counteraction based on a typical cycle of military operations management has been synthesized.
The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the author, within the framework of the article, formulated for the first time the task of solving the problem of countering managed migration, concluded that it was necessary to develop methods to counter this problem, and proposed general solutions.

The article presents modern legal approaches to defining hybrid warfare, as well as ancient sources that describe the essence of hybrid warfare without using this modern name. It examines what hybrid warfare is today, its external manifestations, goals, methods and achieved results. It is shown that hybrid warfare is characterized by extreme secrecy, the use of all available tools and methods, including law, economics, finance, ideology and all purely military methods of deception, covert operations, implemented in such a way that the enemy does not even understand that a war is being waged against him. Examples of the use of legal instruments are used to show a successful hybrid war operation that ensured a hidden return from the socio-economic formation of socialism to the socio-economic formation of capitalism without a single mention of the concept of capitalism in the legal field. The same process is considered from the financial, economic and ideological side, and ways of secretly and covertly implementing global goals without announcing them are shown, with a shift in emphasis and switching the attention of society from the main processes to secondary ones. It has been established that the enemy’s successful implementation of operations against us to conduct hybrid wars is based on our lack of education, the lack of desire to know our own and world history, the habit of acting only against and in pursuit, but not acting in a preemptive manner.

The state policy of the Russian Federation in the sphere of high technologies is a strategic tool for ensuring technological sovereignty, increasing global competitiveness and solving key socio-economic problems. In the article the author considers the theoretical foundations of formation and key stages of development of the state policy of the Russian Federation in the sphere of high technologies, as well as trends and features of development of society, technology and public administration. The article is designed to systematize approaches to the study of normative-legal regulation of public policy of the Russian Federation in the field of high technology, as well as to lay the foundation for the formulation of forecasts and recommendations for the development and creation of mechanisms and tools for the implementation of public policy in the topic under study.

The article contains the author’s reflections on possible technologies for reformatting anti-Russian attitudes among some of the residents of the territories liberated during their liberation, who came under the ideological influence of the “Zelensky regime.” To understand the motivation and worldview attitudes of residents, it is proposed to use methods of social psychoanalysis, in particular, methods of analyzing mental fields and deep attitudes. It is argued that in order to reduce the degree of trauma, not only explanatory (at the psychotherapeutic level) work is necessary, but also a lot of work to meet the existential needs and material needs of residents. In other words, we are talking about creating a favorable living environment in which working with the worldview of new citizens will be most effective. The author of the article is the head of a group of researchers analyzing the sentiments and expectations of the population in the liberated territories of Ukraine. The conclusions and recommendations are based on materials obtained during field research.

The article presents the results of solving the scientific problem of substantiating the essence of the concept of “hybrid war”, as well as the main means of its conduct. To this end, the current aspects of interstate interaction between the West and Russia in the modern period and in the near future, the main periods (phases) of its development and transformation into interstate confrontation in connection with the growing tension of the international and military-political situation are considered. The logic of the implementation of military and non-military threats of the Russian Federation into hostile actions and their integration into a hybrid war is shown, the essence of a hybrid war as a socio-political phenomenon that arose to resolve the extremely aggravated geopolitical, political, economic and civilizational contradictions between the parties to the conflict is shown, the main forms and methods of conducting a hybrid war are shown.

Modern Russia has inherited from the Soviet Union an extensive network of educational institutions and some educational traditions, which are determined by its historical objectives and geopolitical position. Over time, Soviet standards of education have become partially outdated, partially artificially abolished, and the Russian state itself has faced a number of new challenges that involve the return of the Russian Federation to a number of world powers with a competitive level of education. From an internal political point of view, Russian universities, on their way to improvement, face a number of tasks that cannot be accomplished without the support of the state and the coordinated work of a number of departments. This domestic political aspect of improving everyday life and Russian education is closely linked to the international one. The agenda includes the creation of Russian university ratings focused on the global market, special portals with offers and advertising of a number of educational opportunities, as well as work related to the promotion and recognition of Russian education in the international arena. The article provides a review of the literature on key issues and trends in their evolution and development characteristic of recent years, compares and evaluates the Soviet legacy with modern practices, and suggests ways to solve some of the main problems based on Soviet and foreign experience.