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Investigating Alleged Russian Influence Is Cover Up for Pre-Election Show On State Television

FOR/July 4, 2023

The Sejm passed the Act on the establishment of the State Commission for the Study of Russian Influences on the Internal Security of the Republic of Poland in the years 2007-2022. The Commission is proposed to be a public administration body and will be tasked with disclosing alleged cases of widely understood acts of espionage or actions made to the detriment of the Republic of Poland committed by public officials under the influence of Russia.

Politics

Expel Russia from UN Security Council

Rafal Jaskowski and Liberte/April 18, 2023April 18, 2023

Accepting Russia’s presidency of the UN Security Council is the worst thing the international community can do. This situation should be treated as an opportunity to start a serious discussion on the reform of this institution, which apparently no longer fulfills its role. To put it bluntly, it’s time to kick Russia out of the UN Security Council.

Economy

Security Is Not Just Tanks and Guns

Slawomir Dudek and FOR/May 4, 2022

The war in Ukraine will affect Poland’s socio-economic situation through many channels both in the short and long term. In the near term, we face weakening economic growth and even higher inflation, even double-digit inflation.

Society

Cheap Rhetorical Tricks, Recycled Narratives: Disinformation Actors Running Out of Ideas?

Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom/November 9, 2021November 9, 2021 /Leave a comment

Disinformation narratives concerning the energy crisis took a back seat; the go-to topics for disinformation actors over the past two weeks were NATO and Russia, Polexit, “traditional values”, and the ever-present COVID-19 pandemic.

Politics

Estonia-US Relations after Joe Biden’s Victory

Academy of Liberalism/December 1, 2020 /Leave a comment

Joe Biden’s victory at U.S. presidential elections is not something all sides to the Estonian government welcome. This is a shame because Estonia’s relationship with the United States has never nor should it depend on who is president in America, Marko Mihkelson writes.

Politics

When Two Quarrel, Poland Loses

Radoslaw Sikorski and Liberte/June 22, 2020June 22, 2020 /Leave a comment

Donald Trump allegedly decided to withdraw more than 9,000 American soldiers from Germany. Perhaps some of the withdrawn soldiers will go to Poland. But if someone thinks that Poland will benefit from the whole situation, they are wrong. Here’s why.

Society

Encryption Paradox: Examining Bottlenecks in Devising Policy Responses

Anushka Kaushik and Visio Institut/February 19, 2019 /Leave a comment

This paper aims to examine the hindrances to formulating policies on the use of encrypted communication including the fundamental contradiction between the interests of the government and manufacturers or companies aiming to build the most secure software.

Politics

Small Orwellian World of Hungary: New Mass-Surveillance Powers of Viktor Orbán

Lorant Gyori and Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom/December 15, 2018December 15, 2018 /Leave a comment

While the media focuse on the Kremlin’s “hybrid warfare” against the Western democracies or the Chinese social credit system controlling people’s everyday life through mass-surveillance, the illiberal state of Viktor Orbán is also doing its fair share to exercise information control via new digital powers.

Politics

Political Future of the Czech Republic in the Hands of Social Democrats

Adela Kleckova and Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom/May 18, 2018May 21, 2018 /Leave a comment

The two potential coalition parties (the ANO movement and the Social Democrats) have finally reached the consensus on how the country should look like under their second term of governance. But the fate of the coalition will be decided similarly as in Germany – by social democrats’ internal referendum.

Society

The Right to Keep and Bare Firearms and Its Place in the Libertarian Thought

Alen Alexander Klaric and Svetilnik/January 23, 2017 /Leave a comment

An important aspect of the argument promoting the benefits of the right to possess firearms lies in the relationship between the illegal owners of the latter and their aim to use the weapons as the means of coercion. Such individuals possess weapons for one fundamental reason: because the others do not have it.

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Investigating Alleged Russian Influence Is Cover Up for Pre-Election Show On State Television

Expel Russia from UN Security Council

Security Is Not Just Tanks and Guns

Cheap Rhetorical Tricks, Recycled Narratives: Disinformation Actors Running Out of Ideas?

Estonia-US Relations after Joe Biden’s Victory

When Two Quarrel, Poland Loses

Encryption Paradox: Examining Bottlenecks in Devising Policy Responses

Small Orwellian World of Hungary: New Mass-Surveillance Powers of Viktor Orbán

The Right to Keep and Bare Firearms and Its Place in the Libertarian Thought

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