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 […]

May the Christmas peace let us rejoice, make stronger and inspire for creativity in New Year 2023! Foto by: Arita Atpile

On January 21, Mārcis Balodis, a researcher at the Centre for East European Policy Studies, participated in a meeting of the Security and Defence Committee of the Baltic Assembly. “The main threat to the EU’s eastern border is the aggressive foreign policy pursued by Russia and Belarus, which involves the risk of provocations and the […]

The Centre for East European Policy Studies (CEEPS), together with partners from Res Publica (Lithuania) and Propastop (Estonia), is involved in a project aimed at highlighting the Kremlin’s misinformation. Within the framework of the project, several informative analytical articles are being prepared, which illustrate the aims and methods of the disinformation content distributed by the […]