Report Launch: How Russia Has Used Farmers’ Protests As A Trojan Horse
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Report Launch: How Russia Has Used Farmers’ Protests As A Trojan Horse
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European farmers’ protests have swept across the continent, with demonstrations taking place from Brussels to Bratislava. They have attracted the interest of legislators and captured the attention of the public. While the reasons for these protests are perfectly legitimate, drawing to light the plight of rural communities, they have also attracted the unwanted attention of Russia – which seeks to use such demonstrations to spread anti-Ukrainian sentiment and drive societal division.
Join the Henry Jackson Society for the launch of our new report on Russia’s influence on the farmers’ protests, exploring how the protests have been exploited in some cases in Central and Eastern Europe to disrupt recent elections, including through the spread of anti-Ukrainian disinformation. And learn what can be done to help counter the spread of fake news.
Edward Lucas
Edward Lucas’s expertise includes energy, cyber-security, espionage, information warfare and Russian foreign and security policy. He is an acclaimed author and versatile speaker at high-level international events.
Formerly a senior editor at The Economist, the world’s foremost newsweekly, he is a senior (non-resident) adviser at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), a thinktank based in Washington, DC. He writes a regular column in the London Times.
In 1992, he co-founded an English-language weekly in Tallinn, Estonia: the Baltic Independent. For many years a foreign correspondent, he was based in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Moscow and the Baltic states.
In 2008 he wrote the The New Cold War, a prescient account of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, followed in 2011 by Deception, an investigative account of east-west espionage.
An experienced broadcaster, he is a regular contributor to the BBC’s Today and Newsnight programmes, and to NPR, CNN and Sky News. Edward has lectured at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge and other leading universities.
Lucas is the recipient of numerous awards and decorations. He was also the first foreigner to receive an Estonian electronic identity card, and received the first Lithuanian visa in 1991. He was deported from the Soviet Union, arrested, beaten up, interrogated and spied on by communist secret police agents behind the Iron Curtain. He studied economics at the London School of Economics and speaks five languages — German, Russian, Polish, Czech and Lithuanian.
Claire Pasquiou
Claire Pasquiou is a researcher, policy advisor, and writer based in Europe. She holds a Bachelors in Law and two Masters Degrees, including a Masters in Law from the Sorbonne Pantheon (Paris 1) and a Masters in Development Economics from the Catholic Institute of Paris. She is fluent in English, French, and Spanish – owing to her upbringing on four different continents, having lived in China, Latin America, and the Horn of Africa. She has extensive experience working for NGOs, think tanks and consultancies on European policy, with a keen interest in agriculture, technology, and disinformation. Her most recent report for the London based Henry Jackson Society focuses on Russia’s use of online disinformation in rural protests in Central and Eastern Europe.
Dr Helena Ivanov
Dr Helena Ivanov is an associate research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. She recently completed a PhD in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on the relationship between propaganda and violence against civilians. In her thesis, Helena examined the role propaganda played during the Yugoslav Wars and produced a model for studying propaganda which details the key phases, functions, discourses, and techniques of propaganda (the model itself is applicable to other contexts). Additionally, Helena also served as a Manager at the Centre for International Studies at the LSE. Prior to her PhD, Helena completed an MPhil in Political Theory at the University of Oxford, and holds a BA in Politics from the University of Belgrade.
