February 24, 2023 marked one year since the start of the unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation. These events have been accompanied by attempts to undermine support among Ukraine’s allies by spreading disinformation, conspiracy theories and generally, hostile narratives towards Ukraine exploiting socially contentious issues. To better track these hostile narratives, the Prague Security Studies Institute researchers joined the International Republican Institute’s Beacon Project in their series of reports monitoring the online media space of the Czech Republic, among other Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. 

February 24, 2023 marked one year since the start of the unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation. These events have been accompanied by attempts to undermine support among Ukraine’s allies by spreading disinformation, conspiracy theories and generally, hostile narratives towards Ukraine exploiting socially contentious issues. To better track these hostile narratives, the Prague Security Studies Institute researchers joined the International Republican Institute’s Beacon Project in their series of reports monitoring the online media space of Slovakia, among other Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries.  

The European Union-Western Balkan Summit that took place on December 6, 2022, in Tirana represented a significant milestone for the Balkan Region. The enthusiasm of being the host country of such an important event (the first ever in the Western Balkans) was contagious in Albania. In a country of only 110 years of which around 45 years were spent in isolation due to the communist regime, these kinds of events are perceived with a touch of “magic”.

Prague Security Studies Institute (PSSI) v  rámci projektu „České volby v  éře dezinformací: prezidentské volby 2023“ monitoruje veřejnou online debatu o prezidentských volbách a jednotlivých kandidátech. Tato měsíční zpráva se věnuje monitoringu z listopadu 2022, který zahrnoval 100 příspěvků s největším počtem interakcí na Facebooku ze strany prezidentských kandidátů, politických stran a jejich lídrů. Doplňuje jej analýza online debaty o kandidátech na webech známých šířením dezinformací a z mainstreamových médií, zaměřena na pronikání manipulativních narativů z okrajových platforem do politického mainstreamu.