Russian trolls on social networks and media controlled by the Kremlin continue to spread the message that the Baltic states are ‘failed states’ whose ‘industry has only been destroyed after the collapse of the USSR’. The purpose of disseminating such economic messages is to undermine the trust of the citizens of the Baltic states in […]

January 2020 Dr.hist Ainars Lerhis, the Chairman of the Board at the Centre for East European Policy Studies (CEEPS) ceases to hold this post  in order to devote more time in his professional career to research in history. From now on, CEEPS will be led by Māris Cepurītis, who has long been a researcher at […]

Since December 2019, the project “Disinformation Campaigns against Latvia, the EU and NATO: Exploring Narratives” has been launched at the Centre for East European Policy Studies (CEEPS). The project is supported by the International Republican Institute (IRI). The Internet media is routinely scanned using “Versus”, a media monitoring tool developed by IRI. At the end […]