title: People's diplomacy as a way to mutual understanding during armed confl icts. To the 100th anniversary of people's diplomacy
abstract: Following the reunification of Crimea with Russia in March 2014 and subsequently the start of a special military operation in Ukraine in February 2022, which became a forced step by the Russian Federation to protect its territorial integrity, preserve sovereignty and border security, the countries of the Collective West, possessing modern and powerful information resources, have tried with all their might to shape Russia into an image of an aggressor, rather than a state that defends its own sec