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The Italian job – the EU against the virus and the sovereignism

"Using the state TV to make a rally against the opposition is a Soviet Union stuff," thunders Matteo Salvini, the leader of La Lega, a sovereign formation linked to Vladimir Putin.…

April 16, 2020Gerta Zaimi, Italy

Propaganda and Disinformation Psyops Situation Reports

The disinformation campaign in Italy is going on

Moscow has set about searching WhatsApp subscribers from among Italian citizens to build Russia’s positive image on a fee paid basis. The Italian La Repubblica posted a piece claiming that Moscow had launched…

April 15, 2020Italy

Economy Situation Reports

The integration of Uzbekistan: Tashkent bargains

In 2020, Uzbekistan's accession to the Eurasian Economic Union emerged full blown again. Moscow is talking about the importance of geopolitical expansion into Central Asia, while Tashkent is considering a…

April 13, 2020Eurasian Economic Union, Uzbekistan

Situation Reports Governance

Kosovo – COVID19 kills the governments

The government fell in Kosovo in the face of the pandemic emergency on March 25, after only 52 days of work since last year's November elections. To make it fall…

April 6, 2020Gerta Zaimi, Kosovo, Serbia

Geopolitics Situation Reports

China to power up in the world via coronavirus

So far, China has overcome the consequences of coronavirus epidemic within its territory and is gearing up for an economic breakthrough. Alongside this, Beijing is going to gain geo-economic and geopolitical…

April 3, 2020China, Covid-19

Situation Reports Healthcare

Russian COVID-19 Numbers as Dangerous Propaganda

For weeks now, official Russian government news outlets have been proudly trumpeting the news that Russia has an astronomically low rate of infections and fatalities from the coronavirus in comparison…

April 1, 2020Covid-19, Russia

Democracy Situation Reports

Orbán to back off from democracy: Europe not ready for such scenario

The European Union and the NATO have faced the democracy development problem for one of their member states. This issue is hampered to solve by null legal or negotiated schemes…

March 31, 2020EU, Hungary, NATO

Energy Situation Reports

Moscow to back out of US sanctions – eager to establish a monopoly on the European gas market

Russia milks COVID19 pandemic for all its worth to break the US sanctions targeting to shield the European energy market from the Kremlin’s concentrated control and to diversify natural gas…

March 25, 2020Gazprom, Nord Stream-2, Russia

Conflict Situation Reports

Lebanon: The Liberation of Amer Fakhoury and Hassan Nasrallah

Amer Fakhoury is the one who will highlight a crack between Hezbollah's leadership and its base, what we had not been able to see in all the years of the…

March 24, 2020Hezbollah, Lebanon

Propaganda and Disinformation Psyops Situation Reports

Russia is one of the key beneficiary parties in SARS-CoV-2 pandemic crisis

The coronavirus topic is used in the information war with the aim to discredit the EU health system. The campaign targets is to aggravate the health crisis in Western European countries,…

March 23, 2020coronavirus, Covid-19, Russia

Situation Reports