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Paweł Reszka: Reporter’s Journal

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A destroyed car. Source: Paweł Reszka

Notes from Ukraine written by Paweł Reszka, journalist of “Polityka” magazine, originally posted in Polish on his Facebook account.

Paweł Reszka

08.04.2022

Putin’s Orchestra: The Conductor and The Choir

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Source: Frycz i Wicha

Since the war started, the anti-vaxxer section has been playing in the Kremlin orchestra, lead by covid denialists and Confederation party members, with Grzegorz Braun at the forefront. Who is behind the anti-vaxxers’ network in Polish social media?

FRONTSTORY.PL

07.04.2022

Czech and Slovak QAnon groups have incorporated Ukraine into conspiratorial worldview

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Source: ORF, Telegram/Víťazstvo svetla, ICJK

Now, more than a month into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the barrage of disinformation about the conflict is intensifying. Pretexts for the war and pro-Kremlin narratives, however, are not being spread by only well-known faces and websites from the Slovak disinformation scene.

VSquare

04.04.2022

People in Ukraine contribute to gather evidence of Russian war crimes

War in Ukraine

The Logo of the International Criminal Court in Hague. Source: Friemann / Shutterstock

the non-profit charity EyeWitness launched a Ukrainian version of a special app for collecting evidence of alleged Russian and Belarusian war crimes at the beginning of March. Videos and photographs taken through the app could become relevant pieces of evidence in The Hague.

Eva Kubániová

22.03.2022

Putin’s propagandists: How Russian information warfare succeeded in Hungary

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Source: M-SUR / Shutterstock

Despite Hungary backing the EU’s punitive sanctions regime against Russia and the humanitarian aid the cabinet provided to Ukraine, the government continues its foreign policy balancing act between the West and Russia.

VSquare

17.03.2022

The Orbán split: siding with both, simultaneously

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People demonstrate against Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Budapest

Anti-war protest in Budapest, after Russia launched a massive military operation against Ukraine. February 26, 2022. Source: MARTON MONUS / Reuters / Forum

For three terms, the Hungarian prime minister has fought with Brussels and moved closer to Moscow. Then came the Russian invasion of Ukraine — a painful reality check. But it seems that Orbán still does not want to fall out of Putin’s good graces.

VSquare

04.03.2022

Open to refugees, open to the EU: The week that turned the tables in Poland

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Protest against Russian aggression. Demonstration of solidarity with Ukraine. Warsaw 20.02.2022 Source: Rafał Milach / Archiwum Protestów Publicznych

The Russian assault on Ukraine has allowed the Polish government to present itself as a pro-EU state, even as it remains an illiberal regime.

Wojciech Cieśla

04.03.2022

Russo-Ukrainian War: Background and Future Perspectives

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Source: Lervik Design / Shutterstock

The Russian aggression against Ukraine has caused a chain of reactions that is fundamentally transforming Europe and the world, although we are not yet able to fully capture its effects.

VSquare

04.03.2022

Diary of a War

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Sumy, Ukraine after Russian military attack. Source: Military Administration of the Sumy Region

The diary of the family of our journalist, Anastasiia. Her loved ones have stayed in Sumy, border city, where some of the heaviest fighting between Russia and Ukraine is taking place.

FRONTSTORY.PL

03.03.2022

Hungary gives up its fierce pro-Kremlin stance at last

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Russian President Putin meets with Hungarian Prime Minister Orban in Moscow

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban attend a news conference in Moscow, Russia February 1, 2022. Source: SPUTNIK / Reuters / Forum

The unprecedented show of solidarity towards Ukraine on a regional and European, Trans-Atlantic level forced the Hungarian government to change diplomatic course in just a matter of days, and eventually abandon 12 years of pro-Eastern foreign policy.

VSquare

03.03.2022