Media Between State, Law and Society During International Armed Conflicts. Part One: World War I, the Entente

This article starts a cycle of publications highlighting problems of constitutional restriction of the right to information, countering enemy propaganda and promoting one’s own ideologues and narratives as elements of counter-propaganda. After all, the current information wars, as components of hybrid ones, are characterized by a battle not so much of facts, but of senses and narratives, which are almost not refuted by the opposing parties, and therefore, fall less and less under legal regulation, and more under political conjunctures. Considerable attention has been paid to the issue of media censorship during the war. The time limits of setting the scientific problem cover the period from the First World War as the first international armed conflict in terms of the number of participating states to the present day – the Russian-Ukrainian war as the forerunner of a new confrontation between authoritarian regimes and the democratic world. On the example of the Entente countries (Great Britain, France, the Russian Empire) and its associated state-participant – the USA, the authors have concluded, that in the absence of then international legal restrictions on the subjective right to information even after the end of the Second World War, initiated the further and increasing participation of state and non-state actors in the implementation of information policy as in the interwar periods in the form of hybrid wars, as well as open armed confrontations in the context of all stages of the information revolution.