24. März 2025
Background: Austria's DSN (Directorate for State Security and Intelligence) has uncovered a Russian-led disinformation campaign targeting Ukraine. The investigation was triggered by a spy case involving a Bulgarian national, who has since confessed. Since 2022, a cell operating in Austria had been actively spreading pro-Russian narratives—both online and through public actions such as stickers and graffiti. The campaign also employed far-right symbols to create confusion and make it appear as...
21. März 2025
Disinfo Resilience Network Die erste Reise in ein Nicht-EU-Land führte die neue österreichische Außenministerin Beate Meinl-Reisinger in die Ukraine. Die Social-Media-Kanäle der Medien, der Ministerin selbst sowie einige weitere Plattformen berichteten über die Reise und gaben Einblicke.In den Kommentarspalten kam es daraufhin zu massiven Angriffen und ablehnenden Kommentaren. Die Reise würde der Neutralität widersprechen (was faktisch falsch ist), die Ministerin würde lediglich die...
09. Dezember 2024
Speakers agree: The problem goes far beyond social media and online campaigns
27. November 2024
In 2021, Dietmar Pichler, supported by Anna Pattermann from Unlimited Democracy, launched the first Disinformation Awareness Day. At the time, Russian influence campaigns were already a major motivation for this initiative, along with the significant societal challenges posed by international and domestic disinformation related to the Covid-19 pandemic. What has changed since 2021? The situation has grown far more critical. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was accompanied by an...
02. November 2024
Published on the occasion of the "Coalition Against Disinformation" Conference in Washington, DC by author and speaker Dietmar Pichler, Director of the Disinfo Resilience Network, Vienna Russian Influence and Interference in Europe and the West: An Overview Russian foreign interference takes many forms. It includes overt propaganda, such as fabricated images or deepfake videos circulated online, as well as more subtle narratives, like portraying "the threat of NATO expansion" to frame Russia's...
07. Oktober 2024
Political leaders and civil society must act to counter ideological subversion—the full list of Russian-paid actors must be made public Dietmar Pichler, Director of the Disinfo Resilience Network Vienna: Moscow has been infiltrating liberal democracies for decades, focusing not only on information outflows (espionage) but also on information inflows (pro-Russian propaganda). Liberal democracies, as well as countries aligned with Russia, are both targets of Russian propaganda, subversive...
08. November 2022
The coal and Energy Agreement was more of a peace agreement, one way of keeping France and Germany from fighting each other. After the Paris Agreement was signed and came into force, there was nothing for 30 years on EU energy policy. EU did many things but never looked into energy. Why? It was not a transborder issue. It was not concerned with the energy sector in the sense of trading, how the companies need to be structured and how the networks would be governed. The most important is the...
07. Januar 2021
Kinga Brudzińska, PhD, is Programme Director of Future of Europe for GLOBSEC Policy Institute. Kinga has ten years of professional experience in country-specific and policy analysis and advice. Her main research interests lie in the fields of EU foreign policy and EU institutional architecture, with a particular focus on relations among the Member States, and the concept of differentiated European integration. She has chiefly worked on Visegrad countries, and Spanish speaking world. Prior to...
16. Oktober 2020
Introduction The development of the EU is a remarkable success story of international cooperation; “The European Union is an extraordinary-and extraordinarily controversial-case of cooperation between sovereign states”. The EU has always caused a lot of questions and debates regarding its nature because it`s a unique institution that sits between the federation system and international organization? One of the very basic explanation is: “EU is not a federal state like the United States of...