Māris Cepurītis, Director and researcher at the Centre for East European policy studies Considering the centralisation of power in Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin plays a key role in setting the country’s course. This applies not only to the country’s domestic and foreign policy but also to its information activities. Even before the large-scale invasion of […]

Elīna Vrobļevska, Researcher at the Centre for East European policy studies France has been one of the main targets of Russian cyber-attacks and disinformation campaigns this year, largely due to the European Parliament elections this week. However, alongside the Kremlin’s current disinformation targets, there is a long-standing, systematic effort in the Russian and European information space […]

Elīna Vrobļevska, Researcher at the Centre for East European policy studies The terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall in Moscow on 22 March this year has served as a tool of information manipulation and deception to advance Russia’s political and informational agenda. In the immediate aftermath, Russian officials and law enforcement institutions issued statements about […]

Armands Astukevičs, Researcher at the Centre for East European policy studies The Centre for East European Policy Studies continues to analyse current trends in Belarus, information activities, their impact and disinformation campaigns in which the regime of dictator Alexander Lukashenko continues to actively target its neighbours in the West. Distortion of facts and events regularly serves […]

Armands Astukevičs, Researcher at the Centre for East European policy studies Belarus continues to actively target its Western neighbours through informational influence and disinformation campaigns. While the classic theme is the hybrid migration operation on the Belarus’s border with EU member states, in recent months the military threat dimension has been increasingly emphasised in Belarus’s false […]

Authors – CEEPS researchers: Armands Astukevičs, Mārcis Balodis Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent quote about Latvia’s ugly attitude towards its Russian-speaking population gained wide resonance in social media, and some social media users treated it almost as a war threat. This is a moment of truth when we can look back at the rhetoric of Russian […]

Friday, December 15, at 2.00 PM, the opening event of political scientist Andis Kudors’ book ‘Russia  and Latvia: A Case of Sharp Power’, organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University  of Latvia in cooperation with Centre for East European Policy Studies (APPC).  The book ‘Russia and Latvia: A Case of Sharp Power’ […]

Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin (Source: Press Service of the President of the Republic of Belarus) Text PDF: Deportations of Ukrainian children Authors: Juris Jurāns, Armands Astukevičs In a significant development that gained widespread attention in March of this year, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, the […]