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Europe’s Vital Nordic-Baltic Shield
There is much to do if Europe wants to deter war, and much of that will depend on the countries in the continent’s northeast. By Eitvydas...
5 days ago


Putin is ruthlessly erasing Ukrainian identity in Russian-occupied Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered Ukrainians living under Russian occupation to “legalize” their status by September 10 or...
6 days ago


Russian spies as disinformation actors
For years, one of the biggest obsessions of pro-Kremlin disinformation peddlers has been convincing their audiences that any and all...
Apr 4


Putin Has the Fancy Watches — Europe Has the Time
Now more than ever, Europe must stand firm to ensure peace with justice. That means maintaining full military and other pressure on...
Apr 3


Three Ways to Build EU Defense
As the US prepares to cut support for “free-loading” Europeans, the continent has a plan to rapidly scale-up its defences. How should it...
Apr 1


Sympathy With the Devil: The Lie of NATO Expansion
The Kremlin has accomplished something that even its most fervent propagandists might have considered impossible: Western figures now...
Mar 27


Wide Awake and Busy: The Baltics Prepare for Russian Hybrid Attacks
Not all European Union countries are prepared to counter Russia’s hybrid threats, but proximity has increased awareness and readiness in...
Mar 24


NATO’s capability development: A call for urgent reform
Photo by Marina Militare In today’s fast-evolving security environment, NATO finds itself at a critical crossroads. Rapid technological...
Mar 21


What we have learnt about FIMI after three years of full-scale war in Ukraine
By Mykola Balaban and Serhii Zhukov The modern level of economic, political, and informational globalisation offers vast opportunities...
Mar 19


Russia’s Interference Freezes NATO Exercise
Moscow’s hybrid war has stopped a NATO military exercise in Romania. President Vladimir Putin’s disruptive meddling is causing serious...
Mar 10


North Korea Fighting Against Ukraine: How and Why Russian Propaganda Denies It
Since the full-scale invasion, discussions have occasionally arisen about the so-called “Korean scenario” for Ukraine. In 2022, “...
Mar 4


The Kremlin’s energy myths melt away
The colder it gets, the more desperate pro-Kremlin disinformation becomes. This winter, the usual scare stories about Europe’s supposed...
Feb 20


The Plague of Sexual Violence Against Ukraine’s Prisoners of War
Ukrainian prisoners of war are suffering sexual violence and rape, compounded by a suffocating silence that isolates them from the world....
Feb 19


Using NATO’s Article 5 Against Hybrid Attacks
Hybrid warfare against NATO nations should trigger the doctrine of collective defense. But how would it work in practice? By Eitvydas...
Feb 12


The Kremlin’s misuse of Nazism as a weapon of information manipulation
Russia’s obsession with framing Ukraine as a Nazi state serves to justify the ongoing invasion and to distract from Russia’s own...
Feb 3


Another election, another Kremlin interference attempt
As Germany prepares to head to the polls, pro-Kremlin actors are deploying an arsenal of disinformation tactics to manipulate public...
Jan 31


“Gas Gangrene” of Kyiv and Moscow: The Informational Component
For the last three decades, Russia has wielded gas pricing and supply as instruments of political influence. What changed in 2025?...
Jan 22


Choking Russia’s Shadow Fleet in the Baltic
Efforts to shut down the shadow fleet have taken on greater urgency after attacks on NATO members’ critical infrastructure. Here’s what’s...
Jan 17


Europe — Look East to Rebuild the Western Alliance
Europe needs to embrace the incoming Trump administration’s priorities if it wants to strengthen transatlantic relationships....
Jan 13


WP - How to respond to Russia’s hybrid war on the West? Hybrid counterattack.
Russia is suspected in a wide range of indirect attacks in Europe, including cutting undersea cables. Finnish police have said that seven...
Jan 7


Celebrating Russian Propaganda
Russian art shouldn’t be "canceled". Instead, it should be examined for what it reveals about the country’s imperial mission. A Russian...
Dec 30, 2024


Baltic Power Shows Way on Hybrid Threats
The Baltic states, with a long history of Russian interference, offer a model for tackling hybrid threats. On Halloween, Lithuania marked...
Dec 12, 2024


NATO draws up plans for its own fleet of naval surveillance drones
MILAN — The NATO alliance has begun planning for its own fleet of unmanned boats meant to help protect critical undersea infrastructure...
Dec 10, 2024


NATO to revise strategy on how to tackle hybrid warfare
The military alliance is looking for more ways to protect members' assets from sabotage by actors such as Russia and China. There is even...
Dec 9, 2024


How to Counter Russia’s Hybrid Threats? First, Make Them a Priority
Moscow’s hybrid war on the West needs a robust and smart response, which means coordinated action from the European Union. The hybrid...
Nov 28, 2024


Liubov Tsybulska: Russian Culture is a Shining Trojan Horse with Tanks, Bombs, and Missiles Inside
Liubov Tsybulska. Photo by Maksym Polishchuk, Detector Media The strategic communications expert talks about how the descendants of the...
Oct 31, 2024


Tuning into Ukraine: North Korean Troops in Ukraine?
UCMC’s new project, #TuningIntoUkraine , delivers concise, up-to-date insights on Russia’s war in Ukraine. Each 3-minute episode is...
Oct 22, 2024


Beware — Mystery Balloons Can Carry a Punch
Hybrid warfare is getting ever closer to the line of all-out warfare. As usual, the Baltic states are the testing ground. Photo source...
Oct 15, 2024


State terrorism. Why does Russia resort to the tactics of "pure terror" against Ukraine?
On September 11, at the United for Justice conference dedicated to the shelling of civilian infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy...
Oct 10, 2024

Tehran’s Information Missiles: Refuting the Propaganda of a Kremlin Ally
The saga of Iran’s missile deliveries to Russia, which began in spring 2022, has reached a critical point. In early September, The Wall...
Oct 2, 2024

Floating Megabomb Heaves to Near the English Coast
The MV Ruby, a ship carrying a highly explosive Russian cargo, is damaged and looking for a port. Whether or not this is hybrid warfare,...
Oct 1, 2024


Become an "oprichnik" or storm Popasna with the "Wagners": how Russia broadcasts propaganda in computer games
Propaganda appears in various popular computer games as an attempt by Russia to win over and persuade a new audience. Examples of Russian...
Sep 18, 2024


Peter Dickinson, Atlantic Council: «Ukraine’s international communications strategy should focus on highlighting Russian imperialism and the Kremlin’s genocidal objectives in Ukraine»
The Russian-Ukrainian war, which has been ongoing since 2014, has caused changes in the perception of Ukraine in the world. Abroad, they...
Aug 19, 2024


Huge sums stolen from key Russian aviation test center
An investigation has revealed that over 875 million rubles ($10 million) were embezzled during the reconstruction of the main testing...
Jul 12, 2024


Russia’s ‘Africa Corps’ takes over Wagner Group’s lucrative operations on the continent
Moscow has effectively dismantled and largely taken over the Wagner Group and its African operations, once led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, in...
Jul 5, 2024


Belarus: the indoctrination of minors is rising in scale and taking on new forms
We have previously reported on the strong, state-sponsored indoctrination of youth in Belarus with Soviet-style, anti-Western propaganda...
Jun 28, 2024


Pyrrhic victories and crickets chirping in the graveyard
Last week, the Kremlin’s steely gaze was affixed on Avdiivka, lauding the capture of this patch of scorched earth as a breakthrough...
Feb 28, 2024


Russia is losing the economic war: the West must not lose its nerve now
Despite a whiff of 1938 defeatism in Munich, nobody should be fooled by Putin’s fantasies. Russia is running a ‘hot’ war economy. Defence...
Feb 27, 2024


Belarus: Militarisation of minors
One of our earlier analyses touched upon the Sovietisation of Belarusian schools that have lately been mostly renamed after Soviet...
Feb 20, 2024


A Message to NATO: Be More Baltic
As some Western nations waver in their commitment to Ukraine, the Baltic states have remained steadfast and generous allies. It’s an...
Feb 16, 2024


Yurts of Invincibility: One Year Strong in Kazakh Solidarity with Ukraine
The interest of Russian imperialism is not at all limited to the war in Ukraine; its tentacles are trying to cover all the countries of...
Jan 19, 2024


The Belarus KGB’s ill-conceived creativity
Surprising speaker from the KGB On 18 November 2023, a seminar titled, ‘Secure Belarus: the forms and methods of public safety’, gathered...
Jan 5, 2024

Kremlin Shady Horse Daniel Kovalik: Russian narratives under the guise of protection of human rights
The project “Shady Horses” delves into investigating Russian propaganda dissemination within Western countries through prominent...
Jan 3, 2024


Ukraine's David vs. Goliath Victory: Sinking Russia's Naval Ego Without a Single Ship
At the dawn of the war, the Russian Black Sea Fleet proudly sailed with about 40 ships of various types and 7 submarines. The Ukrainians,...
Dec 4, 2023

From Wicked School Pranks to Putin's Elite DKRO: The Evolution of a 'Shitty' Signature
During the school years many, hilarious stories often circulated about the audacious boys from the Soviet era who would deposit feces on...
Sep 27, 2023


17 months of Ukraine’s resistance: Russia-Ukraine war in numbers
We write about the number of victims, deportations, demining, environmental security, migration, education, culture and media during the...
Aug 25, 2023


NATO deterrence and defence: Military priorities for the Vilnius Summit
Source NATO Force Integration Unit Lithuania At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s July summit in Vilnius, the focus will...
Apr 21, 2023


Drone sales to Russia spark a debate in Iran
The revelation that Iran has sold drones to Russia that the latter is now using to attack Ukraine has touched off a debate about whether...
Nov 30, 2022

Pro-Kremlin disinformation focuses on Russia-Ukraine battlefield developments
Kremlin propagandists mainly pursued existing narratives regarding events on the Russia-Ukraine front line, ranging from claims that...
Nov 7, 2022


„Human Life Has No Value There“: Baltic Counterintelligence Officers About Russian Cruelty
The Estonian weekly Eesti Ekspress interviewed the heads and several employees of Estonia’s, Latvia’s, and Lithuania’s state security...
Oct 24, 2022
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