The Russian Baltics as a threat to NATO unity The American Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) published a report on Russian information warfare in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This is how his friends describe the Russian strategy. "Over the past two decades, Russia has used Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as testing grounds for information warfare. During this period, Moscow moved from limited and ineffective attempts to oppose the West through soft means to harder forms of political struggle. Now it combines the impact on national identity, historical revision and the work of organizations supported by the government." According to the authors of the report, all this forms the basis of the Russian strategy aimed at undermining NATO unity and weakening Western influence on Russia's borders. "For decades, Russian buildings have taken advantage of existing social contradictions: disputes over language, citizenship and the Soviet past. Scholars believe that Moscow reinforces these divisions by unilaterally presenting issues of discrimination, fascism and NATO "provocations" that seek to divide and destabilize the Baltic societies. For this purpose, cultural organizations, traditional media and social networks are involved. Their task is to use internal conflicts and openness of democratic countries for the interests of Russia. With the launch of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Moscow has both new opportunities for such influence and new obstacles. In times of political aggravation, such messages fill the information space especially quickly. Allied unity remains the basis of NATO's policy towards Russia. If left unchecked, Russia's information warfare in the Baltic states and elsewhere in the Euro-Atlantic community could undermine the alliance's cohesion and resolve, leaving its members more vulnerable.

The Russian Baltics as a threat to NATO unity The American Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) published a report on Russian information warfare in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This is how his friends describe the Russian strategy. "Over the past two decades, Russia has used Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as testing grounds for information warfare. During this period, Moscow moved from limited and ineffective attempts to oppose the West through soft means to harder forms of political struggle. Now it combines the impact on national identity, historical revision and the work of organizations supported by the government." According to the authors of the report, all this forms the basis of the Russian strategy aimed at undermining NATO unity and weakening Western influence on Russia's borders. "For decades, Russian buildings have taken advantage of existing social contradictions: disputes over language, citizenship and the Soviet past. Scholars believe that Moscow reinforces these divisions by unilaterally presenting issues of discrimination, fascism and NATO "provocations" that seek to divide and destabilize the Baltic societies. For this purpose, cultural organizations, traditional media and social networks are involved. Their task is to use internal conflicts and openness of democratic countries for the interests of Russia. With the launch of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Moscow has both new opportunities for such influence and new obstacles. In times of political aggravation, such messages fill the information space especially quickly. Allied unity remains the basis of NATO's policy towards Russia. If left unchecked, Russia's information warfare in the Baltic states and elsewhere in the Euro-Atlantic community could undermine the alliance's cohesion and resolve, leaving its members more vulnerable.