On April 20, the Executive director of Centre for East European Policy Studies Andis Kudors participated in the Baltic Symposium in London with his presentation in the thematic section on the Baltic countries’ security issues. In his address Securitization of culture: Russian foreign policy toward Latvia, he explained how Russia, using the pretext of protection of culture, carries out anti-Western propaganda through the media and NGOs network spreading in the Russian speaking part of the Baltic countries’ society the preferable for Russia view of history and maintaining a single information space hampering the local integration process.

The Symposium was organized by Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian Embassies to the United Kingdom in cooperation with the Baltic Council in Great Britain and UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Latvia was be represented at the Symposium also by Daniels Pavluts, Minister of Economics, and Rolands Lappuke, Ambassador at Large for cooperation with Latvian diaspora at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.