Resilience Against Disinformation: A New Baltic Way to Follow?
The Baltic states, although not immune to disinformation, have accumulated unique experience and developed effective methods to resist and combat this malice.
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Latvia
Local Russian-language Journalism in the Baltics: Challenges and Perspectives for Building Resilient Communities of Media Professionals
The policy paper analysis explores a set of emerging human-driven vulnerabilities of the media landscapes in Estonia and Latvia to develop an evidence-based policy approach to increase the practical resilience and preparedness of Russian-language newsrooms and local journalists working in those areas and regions of high informational vulnerability.
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Pushed to the Limit? Italian and Spanish Lessons from the Migration Crises
Lithuania, Latvia and Poland are currently dealing with a migrant crisis triggered and fuelled by the regime in Belarus. They have no experience in managing such crises, and might find value in studying the approaches, solutions, and mistakes of EU peers such as Italy and Spain, countries that have often been on the frontline in dealing with illegal migration.
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Dialogue with Russia. Russia Needs to Reset Relations with the West.
Moscow’s resurgent foreign policy and the undemocratic rule of President Vladimir Putin ended the relatively friendly relations that had been possible between Russia and the West in the 1990s. In the seven years since Russia annexed Crimea and started a war of attrition against Ukraine, the security situation in the transatlantic region has continuously deteriorated. The Kremlin has demonstrated hostility towards the West, crises and security issues have continued to multiply instead of being resolved, and the risk of outright conflict has come close to Cold War peaks. There is an obvious and urgent need to lower tensions, but Moscow prefers to demonstrate its readiness to escalate.
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Latvian Banking System in Early 2018: Coping with Bad Apples?
The Latvian banking system is less than 30 years old. During these three decades, the current liquidation of AB.lv banks is the fifth major crisis in Latvian banking. Although many banks have come and gone and the Latvian banking sector has been very vibrant with a hope to become a regional financial centre, every crisis has revealed a bad apple or two.
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ICDS Represented at Cambridge Baltic Conference 2017
On 28 October, ICDS Head of Studies Tomas Jermalavičius participated at the 5th Cambridge Baltic Conference (CBC) organised by the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian students of the University of Cambridge (UK).
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