Edited sentence: According to Mariusz Nogaj, influence operations are orchestrated through the insertion of specific press articles in foreign newspapers, sponsoring NGOs or informal groups (activists and youth groups), or so called black PR (public relations).In relation to Russia's influence operation in regard to NATO accession by Estonian and the other Eastern European states, Janusz Bugajski noted "Regular propaganda attacks by Russia’s state media outlets are supplemented by more systematic disinformation campaign in familiar KGB style operations.Richard H.Schultz and Roy Godson content that "an agent of influence may be a journalist, a government official, a labor leader, an academic, an opinion leader, an artist, or involved in one of a number of other professions.The Russian press has frequently cited U.The main objective of an influence operation is the use of the agent’s position - be it in government, politics, labor, journalism, or some other field to support and promote political conditions desired by the sponsoring foreign power".These have targeted particular government, specific politicians, or pro-Western political parties in nearby states.These targets are depicted as dangerously ‘Russophobic’ and thus their inclusion NATO would allegedly poison the West’s relations with Russia and introduce unstable states into the Alliance.and European commentators who speak out against NATO enlargement on the grounds that it will undermine relations with Moscow by making the Alliance more anti-Russian