Grigori Senkiv (1983-2021) was a public figure in the field of information security in Estonia, a co-founder and Director of the Estonian Centre for Security and Defence Awareness. He was engaged in applied educational projects aimed at raising awareness about security and defence among Russian-speaking youth in Estonia. As a recognised expert, he contributed to a number of analytical studies on the spread of disinformation in social networks in Estonia, the Baltic states, and Ukraine, analysed the attitudes of Russian-speaking residents of Estonia towards defence policy, and also studied the Ukrainian experience in countering contemporary hybrid threats.
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Resilient Ukraine – a Delicate Mosaic? Society, Media, Security, and Future Prospects
Since 2014, after the occupation of the Crimea and part of the territories of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, Ukraine…
Read moreDmitri Teperik: “Situational Awareness is an Essential Part of National Resilience”
“Resilient Ukraine” team continues conducting in-depth field research in south-eastern Ukraine. The second stage of practical research took place during…
Read moreICDS “Resilient Ukraine” Team Develops Research Tool to Identify Communications Gaps and Threats
Dmitri Teperik, Ivo Juurvee and Grigori Senkiv of the ICDS “Resilient Ukraine” team developed, together with some 20 Ukrainian and…
Read moreICDS Contributes to Development of Cyber and Informational Resilience in Ukraine
ICDS team continues to realise the Estonian-Ukrainian development cooperation programme Resilient Ukraine 2018-2020, which supports the implementation of Ukraine’s decentralization…
Read moreICDS presented in Kharkiv and Mariupol latest research report on Ukraine’s national resilience
ICDS organised two public presentations of the research study entitled “A Route to National Resilience: Building Whole-of-Society Security in Ukraine”.…
Read moreA Route to National Resilience: Building Whole-of-Society Security in Ukraine
Civil society is widely acknowledged as an important ingredient of democracy and a bulwark against authoritarianism.
Read moreSeminar on national resilience in Kyiv and report presentation “Resilient Ukraine”
In the framework of a large-scale development cooperation project, focused on introducing Estonian experience to representatives of security sector in…
Read moreFirst on the Front Lines – the Role of Volunteers in Countering Russia’s Military Aggression against Ukraine
Russia’s military aggression gave rise to many spontaneous social and economic developments in Ukraine.
Read moreICDS Conducted a Two-Day Conference in Eastern Ukraine
International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS), in cooperation with Anti-Crisis Media Centre (Ukraine), has successfully conducted a two-day international…
Read more“What role civil society can play in the field of security?” panel discussion, Kharkiv, Ukraine
On December 7, 2016 International Centre for Defence and Security organized a panel discussion with on the occasion of the…
Read moreICDS Organises Panel Discussion “Comprehensive Approach to National Security”, Kyiv, Ukraine
On December 6, 2016 ICDS organized a panel discussion with the distinguished speakers from Estonia and Ukraine at the Embassy…
Read moreICDS Organised in Kharkiv Panel Discussion on Informational and Psychological Resistance
In the framework of the Estonian-Ukrainian development cooperation project “Resilient Ukraine / Civil society support for strengthening national resilience and…
Read moreCivil Society Support for Strengthening National Resilience and Security in Ukraine
International Centre for Defence and Security has launched the development cooperation project called “Civil society support for strengthening national resilience…
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