The sophisticated and well-organized pro-Russian disinformation campaigns have been a cause for concern among many European institutions. Due to their ability to undermine social cohesion and act as a destabilizing force, these activities have flooded the political and public debate.

As a result, members of the media, civil societies as well as state institutions are faced with a myriad of challenges concerning the most appropriate response to Moscow’s disinformation offensive that targets the core pillars of democracy.In 2015, PSSI launched a new initiative consisting serie of roundtables and research publication with the aim to highlight the pro-Russian disinformation tendendencies and their pattern of conduct across the CEE region.