This paper is based upon Ukraine’s experience of facing Russian information warfare, placed into a global context.
Host Volodymyr Yermolenko (Ukraine World, Internews Ukraine) welcomes to the studio Kateryna Kruk, Ukrainian political scientist and communications expert, fellow at StopFake and the European Values Think Tank.
“Europe without barriers” prepared a paper, which analyses political context of visa suspension mechanism, including public claims of EU officials and European media publications on functioning of visa-free regime with Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova.
UkraineWorld prepared a video to explain how social media are changing politics.
Although Ukraine has become a focus of international attention in recent years, it remains terra incognita for many audiences.
UkraineWorld expert spoke with Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who was the President of Estonia from 2006 through 2016, about chips, deep fakes, Russian bots, Mogherini, and other topics in digital security.
2017 turned out to be rich in newsbreaks in the judicial sphere, which undoubtedly focused the media attention on court proceedings in Kharkiv and the region.
Natalia Freik, Junior Research Fellow at the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting, analysed the EU coverage in Ukrainian regional media.
Texty.org exposed a network of approximately 2 thousand Facebook users, which had close ties with groups of “Stepan Mazura”, a DNR combatant; the latter has long pretended to be a Ukrainian patriot. It is a network of public groups and users who spread calls for riots and protests under disguise of patriotic slogans.
Vitalii Moroz and Olha Hurtovenko, coordinators at Digital Security School 380, analysed the cybersecurity challenges for Ukraine.