Modern Cyber Weaponry and the “Weaponization” of Ideas: How Elections are Transformed into Cyber Operations.
June 23, 2019
Whether being busy with internal power battle or having a purposeful long-term ease-on-Russia-strategy, Ukraine weakens its grip on the conscience of the EU power elites over the basic principles of justice. It results in situations,…
June 12, 2019
In 1944 D-Day started a major push to end World War II. 70 years later the President of France used the day to initiate a peace process to resolve the only current hot war in Europe. On June 6 2019, as leaders of many countries gathered again in Normandy to commemorate 75 years of the Allied landing on the French beaches, the war in Eastern Ukraine is still raging, reaping its somber harvest of dead and injured.
June 7, 2019
The surrealistic presidential elections in Ukraine provoked a real surge in Europe’s information space. The story of a comedian, without any prior political experience, who suddenly turned into a president, became central on TV news, in leading newspapers and even appeared in the Dutch showcase. So, for the time being, this story is definitely known by most Europeans.
May 7, 2019
Ukraine is considered to be a testing ground for cyberattacks from Russia. Can we say that the last six months before the elections, this cyber-activity has been intensified, and can we say that Ukraine is indeed a test ground and these tests will then be applied in Europe?
May 4, 2019
The Kremlin’s cyber army has become a formidable threat around the globe, with cyber attacks targeting not only states but many private companies. The cyberspace is still pretty much a free-for-all, with no mechanisms to hold states accountable for malicious attacks.
May 3, 2019
The Digital Curtain of Russia With the invention, and then the rapid development of the Internet, difficult times arrived for totalitarian regimes. After all, many protests and revolutions in the past 20 years would not…
March 15, 2019
Russia, the United States, France, and China held secret talks on cybersecurity in Paris last week to produce something akin to a “Treaty of Westphalia” for cyberspace. In this way, they hope to avoid clashes…
December 4, 2018
Ukraine could soon ban two Ukrainian channels, NewsOne and 112, which are widely considered channels spreading Russian propaganda. While some have cheered the step, others are questioning in what way it was done and whether…
November 24, 2018
On 9 October Brussels’ experts and politicians had an opportunity to listen to the prominent speakers like Refat Chubarov (Chair of Mejlis), Emine Dzhaparova (Deputy Minister of Information Policy of Ukraine), Alim Aliev (co-founder of…
October 9, 2018
Ukraine cannot take continued EU attention for granted as a resurgent Russia reasserts itself in Brussels and the political focus shifts towards upcoming European elections.
October 5, 2018
Any government “can justify armed intervention in a foreign state” through information attacks, and prevent such attacks against itself with the help of ideology. This is the doctrine of Igor Ashmanov, who developed the concept…
March 12, 2018
Earlier Russian propaganda was mostly the problem of Ukraine and other post-Soviet states, but now it has become a problem of Europe which can no longer be ignored. The Kremlin’s disinformation campaigns have become a…
July 17, 2017
Decision of the Ukrainian authorities to ban Russian social networks like Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki still divides Ukrainian society. While the president rejected the petition which demands to lift the ban, de-facto many of the prohibited…
July 2, 2017
Emotions and ideas can easily be spread through social networks, unite people and create an “online crowd.” Those inside the crowd then behave the same way as in a real crowd, with all the ensuing…
January 17, 2017
Main theses from the Russian-Ukrainian Conference of civil society activists in Brussels (European Parliament): 1. With its acts, Russia made an attack on the legal system of human rights – Ella Polyakova (Russia) 2. Statistics…
July 1, 2015
