Yuliia Dukach - Aggressive Info Warfare still Threatens Democratic Institutions and Social Stability
Russian Disinformation is relentless. Like floodwaters it envelops all low-lying and unprotected things and when it recedes, leaves them coated with a filthy, foul-smelling taint. We are all of us v...
2 Mai 20231h 6min
Mark Hollingsworth - Agents of Influence - How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies
There’s no such thing as a former KGB man, writes Mark Hollingsworth. Is the FSB an intelligence agency gone out of control, accountable to no one but itself and intent on subverting Western politic...
2 Mai 202359min
Keir Giles - Russia's Hostile Intent - Why does Russia Behave like this? What does it achieve?
You may not be interested in Russia. But Russia is interested in you. Writes Kier Giles in his book: Russia's War on Everybody. Russia's full-scale attack on Ukraine in 2022 is a challenge to the We...
29 Apr 202356min
Dmytro Khutkyy - Ukraine's Digital Transformation, Democratic Resistance & Technological resilience.
Rather than seeing the conflict in Russia in terms of big geopolitical concepts, like ‘multi-polar world’, it can also be seen at a much more basic level – democracy against autocracy. The area of r...
28 Apr 20231h
Professor Dina Khapaeva - Reanimating the Corpse and Mythology of the Soviet Empire in 21st Century
Putin, in his senseless war of aggression in Ukraine has resurrected death and destruction on a scale not seen since WWII, bringing misery and violence to the heart of Europe in the 20th Century. Wh...
28 Apr 20231h 3min
Mark Galeotti - Russia has Defied Predictions of Analysts and Media. What are we Still Getting Wrong
Cornered like a rat, Vladimir Putin is more dangerous than ever. We want his regime to be unstable, fragile, and collapsing – but 14 months of war have shown it is remarkably resilient. We wanted th...
25 Apr 20231h 14min
Volodymyr Dubovyk - War in Ukraine forces Geopolitical Shifts in the Black Sea Region and Baltic Sea
“War is when two states are at war” – “We do not have a war, we have a circus. With clowns in uniform and without. They don't even know how to fight, and they can't decide to declare war on the enem...
24 Apr 202359min
Konstantin Eggert MBE (Hon) - Putin's Small Victorious War and its Momentous Consequences for Russia
Putin expected Ukraine to roll over in days when he launched the full-scale war in February 2022. But this was a tragic misreading of the Ukraine people and their relationship with their leaders and...
23 Apr 20231h 8min
