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Russia / Strategy Media Update (333) – 12 October 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Russia producing absurd claims about NATO troops in Baltics, while Georgia argues the Ilves case. Russia is the largest...
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Central and Eastern Europe’s Pushback Against Sanctions on Russia
Currently, Czech President Miloš Zeman represents the newest stalwart Soviet holdout that supports lifting sanctions on Russia. To many in Czechia, he represents the ‘old guard’, the former Soviet...
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America Will Always Lose Russia’s Tit-for-Tat Spy Games
While not an article on Information Warfare, Information Operations, this article is about a form of political warfare in which the United States has consistently proven feckless, unwilling to do what...
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Equifax takes down web page after report of new hack
Equifax is in real trouble. …an independent security analyst on Wednesday found part of Equifax’s website was under the control of attackers trying to trick visitors into installing fraudulent Adobe...
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Russia’s Neighbors Respond to Putin’s ‘Hybrid War’
Baltic and Nordic countries turn to education as much as military hardware to counter Moscow’s hybrid threats. By Reid Standish Reid.Standish @reidstan October 12, 2017 RIGA, Latvia — On Aug. 30, the...
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Exclusive: Even Pokémon Go used by extensive Russian-linked meddling effort
There is nothing terribly confusing about this, which I’ve been saying for years. Anything and everything can and will be used by Russia as a tool or a weapon against the West. The goals: Sow chaos...
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Russia / Strategy Media Update (334) – Friday, 13 October 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Russia complains loudly about US BMD capabilities, claiming performance well in excess of US reports. Russia complains...
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We’re Not In Kansas Anymore
Today I watched Trump’s Iran speech, it was as I expected. What was different for me, however, was reading the comments from “Americans” during the speech. Hateful, extremist, and thoroughly without...
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Russia Has Invented Social Media Blitzkrieg
Good article and great premise, but the personal opinion of the author produced a very poisonous pill in one swarmy paragraph which implies cooperation between the Trump campaign and Russia. As I’ve...
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Wary of Hackers, States Move to Upgrade Voting Systems
By MICHAEL WINES October 14, 2017 WASHINGTON — State election officials, worried about the integrity of their voting systems, are pressing to make them more secure ahead of next year’s midterm...
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Russia’s lower house drafts bill retaliating US sanctions
Please note there are two completely different systems of ‘counting’ when it comes to the tit-for-tat sanctions competition between Russia and the United States. The Russian tally, and the American...
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How Russia Harvested American Rage to Reshape U.S. Politics
It is interesting to read what latecomers to the art of influence say about Russian Information Warfare. ““This is cultural hacking”, referring to Russian trolls using cultural divides to increase...
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Strategic Communications and Public Diplomacy “Seen on the Web” (#87) October...
Press Release of the Secretariat for Communication Official Vatican Network, news.va, January 24, 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS In the News ON CAPITOL HILL [Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing,...
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Russia / Strategy Media Update (336) – 15 October 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. Again, apologies for a barebones report. This is how the report looks using only one basic editing tool, with no manual editing. No pictures, no...
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New Russia Troll Insights
I am copying and pasting in two versions of the same story. The original Russian article and the derivative Yahoo article. I believe they are significantly different, at least the gist of what is...
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Russia / Strategy Media Update (337) – 16 October 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Good essay by Umland on the head in sand regional politics of Central / Eastern Europe, where 40+ years of Soviet...
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In Russia, nobody’s laughing at Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin
If you tell a joke in Moscow and nobody laughs, does it really matter? Clearly Russians have problems laughing at themselves, at times. Even though self-deprecating humor was all the rage during...
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Sorry, Little Korea, “Mad Dog” Is Taken
Poor North Korea, they try so hard. North Korea suspected source of ‘mad dog’ Trump leaflets Fox News Apparently North Korea is trying to hobble President Trump with a new nickname, “Mad Dog”....
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What Facebook Did to American Democracy
For the most part, this article really does a really good job of describing the role Facebook played in US 2016 election information fiasco. There are a few parts with which I vehemently disagree, but...
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Kremlin Troll Factory’s Methods and Figures Revealed
A timely update on the Russian Troll Farm from The Moscow Times. A point of clarification. The “Internet Research Agency” ceased to exist a few years ago. What was left behind operates as part of...
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