National Intelligence Council
This document is a declassified version of a classified report that the Intelligence Community provided to the President, senior Executive Branch officials, and Congressional leadership and intelligence oversight committees on 07 January 2021. The Intelligence Community rarely can publicly reveal the full extent of its knowledge or the specific information on which it bases its analytic conclusions, as doing so could endanger sensitive sources and methods and imperil the Intelligence Community’s ability to collect critical foreign intelligence. (more…)
Globsec and Eastern Europe Studies Centre
In countries with higher rankings in democracy quality indexes, respondents are more satisfied with their current governance system than in countries on lower ranks; However, expressing higher support for liberal democracy over autocratic leaders does not correlate with their satisfaction with the current governance system – countries with most respondents preferring liberal democracy over autocracy are not necessarily the countries with highest degrees of satisfaction with the current system of governance.
Eastern Europe Studies Centre
Disinformation is considered to be one of the key challenges facing European and Lithuanian security. The evaluation of the EEAS strategic communication experts EUvsDisinfo of June 2020 noted that “foreign actors and certain third countries, in particular Russia and China, have engaged in targeted influence operations and disinformation campaigns in the EU, its neighbourhood and globally, seeking to undermine democratic debate and exacerbate social polarisation…”
Res Publica
Relations between Poland and Lithuania play an important role in maintaining regional stability in Central- and Eastern Europe and therefore are being constantly tested by adversaries. Russian propaganda and disinformation outlets tirelessly try to undermine the mutual trust of the societies…
CyberDefence24
Polish War Studies University was a target of hostile malign information operation, which used the credentials of former Polish MP and hit several media outlets in Poland, including its biggest newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza…
DebunkEU
The pandemic is being used to spread false and misleading narratives with one single aim – discrediting the Baltic countries and Poland and their efforts to fight the pandemic. According to Debunk EU analysis, in November the main targets of disinformation became quarantine measures, vaccination programs, NATO exercise, and general abilities of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland to cope with the virus…
A journey along internet highways can be tricky. Out there, we may come across trolls, bots, fake news, phony experts or authors, deepfakes, manipulated information, and so much more. Our toolkit, “Internet Highway Rules” gives you 16 practical hints and tips on how to stay safe on the internet, master fact-checking and critical thinking skills, as well as not getting fooled by fake news or blinded by our own opinions. The toolkit prompts you on how to stay vigilant and safe during your ride through the digital content of the net. (more…)
Eastern Europe Studies Centre
Alexander Lukashenko’s authoritarian regime, established as a result of a constitutional coup in 1996, is currently facing the most serious political crisis in all the years of its existence. After the cynically rigged election on 9 August 2020, masses of people took to the streets of their cities to protest. The officially announced results of the election in which Lukashenko won 80.1 % of the vote, while his main rival, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, received just 10.1 %, radically diverged from the views of the majority of Belarusians…
Eastern Europe Studies Centre
MICHAEL SCRIMA AND JURGIS VEDRICKAS
The nature of the security environment and of non-traditional threats are challenging NATO’s posture as they require a tool of policy responses that cannot be produced by an alliance focused only on external defence and military power. Therefore, for NATO, it seems compelling broadening the scope of its mandate and enlarging its portfolio to match the various layers of non-traditional threats…”
Eastern Europe Studies Centre
KONSTANTINAS ANDRIJAUSKAS
The Year of the Rat proved to be almost as trying as the previous Year of the Pig for Sino-Lithuanian relations. The current paper therefore attempts to objectively update the former assessment of China’s presence in Lithuania, and the state of their bilateral relationship in general as of the end of 2020…
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