9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.,
The Baltic Studies Program presents a symposium:
“Kremlin Influence Operations in the Baltic and Beyond.”
In the last several years the intelligence services of the Russian Federation have committed increasing numbers of acts of sabotage in various European countries. This has included recruiting local individuals to carry out sabotage and to collect intelligence. The speakers at this symposium investigate these acts of hybrid warfare the Russian state is using in the Baltic countries.
In addition to outlining the nature and extent of these intelligence operations and describing Russia’s strategy, the speakers will discuss local resistance and resilience – what governments, media, and civil society in the Baltic and beyond are doing to counteract these influence operations of the Kremlin.
9:00 am Inga Springę : “Russia’s influence methods in Latvia and the response by government, media, and civil society”
9:50 am Holger Roonemaa: “Will the Baltic countries be next? What are Russia’s real ambitions in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania?”
10:40 am Break
11:10 am Shota Gvineria: “Russia’s coherent strategy in the near abroad: from active measures to hybrid warfare”
12:00 pm Lunch Break
1:30 pm Michael Weiss (Online): “Tallinn’s Spycatchers: Russia’s intelligence threat and Estonia’s counterintelligence capability”
2:20 pm Olena Lennon: “Russia’s interference in foreign elections as an instrument of hybrid warfare”
3:10 pm Break
3:40 pm Matthew Schmidt: “Defending the recovery: how Ukraine can prevent a Russian victory after major combat”
4:30 pm Final Discussion
- Morning sessions chaired by Howard Stoffer (University of New Haven)
- Afternoon sessions chaired by Bradley Woodworth (University of New Haven / Yale University)