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Czech and Slovak QAnon groups have incorporated Ukraine into conspiratorial worldview

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.

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04.04.2022

How the Czechs and Poles fell out with each other

elections, environment, EU

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The Turów case is only a symptom of underinvestment in Czech–Polish relations. Source: Smartha / Shutterstock.com

The Polish state media portrays the Czech Republic as a foe that, for dubious reasons, is set on ruining the Polish energy sector. Currently, it is the Turów lignite mine on the Polish side of the border that is behind the friction between the two countries. Does this case mirror structural problems in Czech–Polish relations, and what can be done to restore mutually favourable cooperation?

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06.10.2021

Three Seas Initiative: Scenarios for 2025

3SI, EU

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Three Seas Initiative countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria. Source: MKA Graphics / Shutterstock.com

The next Three Seas Summit will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria on 8-9 July 2021. The initiative was created to ‘promote cooperation between 12 European nations and their partners contributing to economic growth and energy security’. Before the summit, we are publishing an excerpt from the report Towards 3SI Civil Society Forum, developed by The Visegrad Insight team.

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05.07.2021

Three years after the murder of Ján Kuciak

investigative journalism, Jan Kuciak

Demonstrators take part in a protest rally marking the second anniversary of the murder of the investigative reporter Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova. Slovakia, February 21, 2020. Source: DAVID W CERNY / Reuters / Forum

Investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová, were murdered on February 21, 2018. The reason was Ján’s journalistic work and the articles he wrote for aktuality.sk.

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Pavla Holcova

21.02.2021