Viktor Berezenko is a social scientist, psychologist, and expert in strategic communication and counter-disinformation. He holds a PhD and serves as co-founder of the Institute of Cognitive Modeling (ICM), the Institute for Global Transformation (IGT), and the World Anew Foundation. Over the past decade, he has led and participated in more than twenty major initiatives involving public-opinion research, social technologies, and large-scale communication campaigns, many conducted in partnership with government institutions, international organizations, and leading civil-society actors. His work has included building one of Ukraine’s largest national news communities on messaging platforms, designing national public-health and anti–domestic-violence campaigns, and developing tools to strengthen civic resilience amid Russia’s ongoing information warfare. He has trained public officials, advised national communication strategies, and contributed to policy discussions on disinformation and societal resilience during wartime. He is the co-author of the book The Kremlin’s Information War. 

Together, Berezenko and his co-author Tsarenko bring a rare blend of academic rigor, practical experience, and direct engagement with the challenges of hybrid warfare. Their partnership reflects years of collaboration supporting Ukrainian institutions, civil-society organizations, and international partners in navigating the pressures of modern information conflict. The Kremlin’s Information War synthesizes their combined expertise, offering both a theoretical framework and a front-line perspective on how disinformation is created, why it succeeds, and what democratic societies must do to counter it.