The tension escalated by media reporting which surrounded the preparation and conduct of the Russian-Belarus exercises Zapad 2017 has demonstrated the weak spots in Ukraine’s and West’s resilience towards information attacks targeting the sense of security and control over the situation on the borders of the Alliance.
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Held in North-Eastern Estonia on October 1-6, 2017, international autumn school Resilience League 2017 was a traditional training event, the main purpose of which was to create common understanding and situational awareness between Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Ukrainian experts for strengthening informational and psychological resilience.
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ICDS Chief Executive Dmitri Teperik took part in the NATO Information and Communicators’ Conference, held in Valencia on 18-22 September 2017.
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On 12. September Dmitri Teperik and Ivo Juurvee from ICDS participated at the “3rd Subject Matter Expert Workshop” on Russia’s (dis-) information against the Nordic-Baltic in Riga.
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On 25 May, ICDS and the NATO StratCom Center of Excellence hosted a seminar dedicated to the role of the media and journalists in strengthening national resilience.
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Some say that Russia simply gambles when it meddles in other countries’ elections, like a poker or roulette player who walks from one table to another to try his luck.
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ICDS Chief Executive Dmitri Teperik joined an international team of experts, who will run a project on assessing vulnerability and resilience to Russia’s disinformation warfare.
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On 25 May, International Centre for Defence and Security and NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence organised jointly an international discussion with experts and journalists which addressed the issue of (a new) media and its audiences under actual hybrid threats. Over the past 5-6 years, we have been observing a global shift of traditional media into the digital sphere alongside the many challenges associated with that. This new environment creates unprecedented flows of information accelerated by growing usage of social media. Intensive commercialisation and globalisation make it hard for responsible media sources to remain non-partisan, independent and competitive on the market. At the same time, Russia has started to use manipulatively government-aligned media channels as a tool to achieve its aggressive goals of foreign policy.
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ICDS Chief Executive Dmitri Teperik participated in the international StratCom Summit 2017, which was organised by the European Values Think-Tank in Prague on 15-19 May 2017.
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On May 16-17, the ICDS Research Fellow Henrik Praks was among the discussants during the workshop “The Baltic Sea Region in a Changing World”. The event was hosted by the Warsaw Office of the German Marshall Fund in co-operation with the Söderton University and was held in university’s premises in Stockholm.
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