International information activities of the diplomatic mission of the UNR in Prague 1921-1923.

Abstract

The proposed article is a continuation of the study on the processes of international information, propaganda and publishing activities of The Ukrainian extraordinary diplomatic mission of the UNR in Czechoslovakia during 1921-1923. The following national and departmental normative legal documents defining the direction of the international information work of the diplomatic mission and the specific tasks of the Ukrainian diplomatic missions with the formation and activities of the state center of the UNR in exile are highlighted.

In the study, much attention is paid to the study of the broad information and publishing work of the diplomatic mission in Prague, as a means of attracting the attention of European political circles and peoples to the fate of Ukraine, its legitimate state rights and geopolitical interests. The main publications in Czech and Ukrainian educational publications, which determined the direction and objectives for the dissemination abroad of information about the history and civilizational achievements of the Ukrainian people, its current state, the process of revival of national statehood, the desire of Ukraine in the international arena. The main bases of foreign policy propaganda, organizational structure and functions of the staff information Department of the diplomatic mission of the UNR in Czechoslovakia, assistance of public organizations and the Ukrainian Diaspora in the international information work of Ukrainian diplomats are considered. Information and cultural assistance to Ukrainians in the Diaspora and in the ethnic territories occupied by Bolshevik Russia is covered. Forms and methods of international information work, objective difficulties on the way of distribution abroad of truthful data on the Ukrainian state are investigated.