Submitted by christian on Wed, 03/27/2024 - 14:02
In the propaganda war, Russia remains fully committed to conducting information operations around the globe, playing the long game to outlast any unity among Ukraine’s allies and until Ukraine loses its will to fight. Russia is attacking Western public support to fund Ukraine’s defense and it has expanded targeted propaganda efforts in different parts of the world, including Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.
Submitted by christian on Wed, 03/20/2024 - 16:20
Russia’s tactic in the ongoing conflict with Ukraine is to persuade the Western powers to withhold aid to Kyiv. To do so, the Kremlin spreads propaganda to support pro-Russian political parties by using a network of spies and new technologies.
Pro-Russian forces in the EU are represented by either far-right nationalist or extreme left-wing socialist and communist parties. In certain countries, they receive substantial backing while in others they face exclusion and no parliamentary representation.
France
Submitted by christian on Mon, 03/18/2024 - 13:30
- Open Russia Civic Movement, United Kingdom, April 27, 2017
- Open Russia, United Kingdom, April 27, 2017
- Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation, Romania, July 03, 2017
- European Platform for Democratic Elections, Germany, March 13, 2018
- International Elections Study Center, Lithuania, March 13, 2018
- People in Need, Czech Republic, November 12, 2019
- European Endowment for Democracy, Belgium, March 12, 2020
- European Falun Dafa Association, United Kingdom, July 21, 2020
Submitted by christian on Fri, 03/15/2024 - 17:04
Ukraine
- Fighting corruption
- Law on staffing for the National Anti-Corruption Bureau
- Law regulating lobbying in line with European standards, as part of an anti-oligarch action plan
- Law addressing recommendations from the Venice Commission (an advisory body of the Council of Europe) in areas such as the language used by the state, media and education.
Moldova
Submitted by christian on Wed, 03/13/2024 - 18:07
Author: Jamie Shea, Senior Fellow for Peace, Security and Defence at Friends of Europe, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Submitted by christian on Mon, 03/11/2024 - 15:25
- Russia is producing about 250,000 artillery munitions per month, or about 3 million a year
- Collectively, the US and Europe have the capacity to generate only about 1.2 million munitions annually to send to Kyiv.
- Russia is currently firing around 10,000 shells a day, compared to just 2,000 a day from the Ukrainian side.
- Russia is running artillery factories “24/7” on rotating 12-hour shifts. About 3.5 million Russians now work in the defense sector, up from somewhere between 2 and 2.5 million before the war.
Submitted by christian on Thu, 03/07/2024 - 12:47
- The majority in the next European Parliament is likely to back a continuation of the type of financial, logistical, and military aid that Western states have been approving for Kyiv since February 2022. However, there will be a larger number of MEPs (particularly in ID and among the non-attached MEPs) who are more sympathetic towards Russia. Furthermore, support for Ukraine in the rest of the parliament might also soften as national parties start to respond to the changing opinions of their voters, expressed by their votes in the European Parliament elections.
Submitted by christian on Wed, 03/06/2024 - 17:13
- The 2024 European Parliament elections will see a major shift to the right in many countries, with populist radical right parties gaining votes and seats across the EU, and center-left and green parties losing votes and seats.
- Anti-European populists are likely to top the polls in nine member states (Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Slovakia) and come second or third in a further nine countries (Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and Sweden).
Submitted by christian on Thu, 02/29/2024 - 15:23
People who undertake foreign interference activities may not be easily identifiable, and it may not be obvious they are acting on behalf of a foreign power.
These people seeking to conduct acts of foreign interference could attempt to create a sense of personal connection with, and obligation from, an individual which they can then use to coerce or influence decisions in their favor.
This is often done by engaging in activities to make targeted individuals feel a sense of obligation or indebtedness, such as providing:
Submitted by christian on Thu, 02/22/2024 - 17:10
In Russian discourse, NATO’s front – including its talk of “fair democracy” and “human rights” and unfounded accusations towards Russia – constitutes a smokescreen hiding its ulterior motive of geopolitical gains; the US “rhetoric of moral values” is “only on the surface. “Real facts are hushed up” and “accusations made to divert attention”. Conflict is created from nothing by “instrumentalizing” and “speculating” in universal values. To Russia, NATO’s values are fake, but its hostility is real.
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