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- technology@lemmy.zip
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- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.zip
- europe@feddit.org
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/490647
“[Russian] information operations are underway […] to gradually demoralise the public debate so that Russian narratives can be disseminated. These are part of an information war to stop the flow of material aid to a struggling Ukraine,” warned the Czech National Centre for Combating Organised Crime (NCOZ) in a report.
“The Kremlin’s efforts to diminish public trust in institutions and the state is not new, but the increase in the intensity of influence operations is a threat,” the Czech Strategic Communications Coordinator Otakar Foltýn said in reaction to the NCOZ report.
According to the NCOZ, Russian activities are aimed at influencing the population of Western European countries while increasing the threat of sabotage against critical and transport infrastructure, with local residents and criminal networks are becoming more involved in various activities.
These include gathering information, identifying targets, putting pressure on specific individuals, such as those from the exiled diaspora, and even direct attacks on infrastructure and public places.
“This issue has been persistent for several years, with Russian and Chinese influence attempting to infiltrate Czech society,” Jurečka said. “We must cultivate a society that can critically think, resist disinformation, and not succumb to fear,” Jurečka added.
Czech Republic. My bad. Old brain.
Don’t feel bad friend, I keep forgetting that it’s not a thing anymore as well
Some of us still think Yugoslavia is on the map somewhere! I can’t find it! Where is it?!
Hold on… It’s not‽
TIL I need to re-up my geography knowledge
The world has changed a lot since I was in school (and our books were old AF then (some of my history books in the early 2000s referred to the civil rights movement as “growing tensions” lol))
Put it in ‘H’!
Thanks. I think I need a song for that and Burma/Myanmar. I never forget now it’s Istanbul not Constantinople.
The song helped me remember that one much more than I’d like to admit.
As of 2016, their name is preferably Czechia. ^^’
To be clear, as of 2016, they changed their name to Czechia. ^^’