Russia will try mostly to widen European divisions
Journal: Emerald expert briefings
Year: 2019

Subject Russian attempts to influence European politics and elections. Significance Russia sees liberal democratic values as vulnerabilities that can be exploited to drive wedges into societies and undermine governability. A hybrid approach using both online and mainstream media is a minimum-cost, high-efficiency strategy that can in the long term amplify illiberal policies, and nationalist and far-right attitudes in Central-Eastern Europe (CEE). Impacts Russia’s immediate goal of splitting the