Judy Asks: Can Europe Defeat Russian Disinformation?

A selection of experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey each week on a European topic in the news.

In this feature the question is: Can Europe Defeat Russian Disinformation?

The experts are:

+ Ian Bond - Director of foreign policy at the Centre for European Reform
+ Thomas de Waal - Senior fellow at Carnegie Europe
+ Anna Korbut - Deputy chief editor at the Ukrainian Week
+ Jakub Janda - Head of the Kremlin Watch Program and deputy director of the European Values Think Tank
+ Stefan Meister - Head of the Robert Bosch Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia at the German Council on Foreign Relations
+ Marc Pierini - Visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe
+ András Rácz - Associate professor at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Hungary
+ Gianni Riotta - Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
+ James Rogers - Director of the Department of Political and Strategic Studies at the Baltic Defence College and senior editor of European Geostrategy
+ Ulrich Speck - Senior research fellow at the Brussels Office of the Elcano Royal Institute

ESO: Background information: Russia's information war: Propaganda or counter-propaganda? http://www.europeansources.info/record/russias-information-war-propaganda-or-counter-propaganda/

ESO: Background information: War of words: how Europe is fighting back against Russian disinformation http://www.europeansources.info/showDoc?ID=1216353

Blog: LSE EuroppBlog, 24.01.17: The Kremlin doesn’t promote autocracy – it simply trolls whomever it dislikes http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2017/01/24/kremlin-doesnt-promote-autocracy/

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