Security Agency Yearbook Published With Blue and Yellow Cover
The annual Estonian Internal Security Service (ISS, also known as KaPo) report was published today, with a blue-yellow design as a nod toward Ukraine.
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The yearbook focuses on NGOs with loose ties to Russia - - and some not as loose - and organizations in Russia set up for external purposes.
These organizations, according to the IS, aim to promote three messages:
1) Estonia supports Nazism
2) Russian-speaking people are discriminated against in Estonia en masse
3) Estonia is a dead-end state that only causes problems for its Western partners
The report says Russia had refrained from taking openly aggressive steps before Ukraine, to avoid international isolation, but that is no longer a priority.
The ISS is tasked with national security, counterintelligence and investigating large-scale cases of corruption.
The full text of the review is available
here.
Can a Psychopath Teach Us How to Succeed ?
Mark,
In theory, and I mean way back when, our Army shrink tried to explain the Mobutu mentality.
Huge sense of self-worth
persuasive
ruthless
No remorse
manipulative
Politicians :D
The year book I referenced are from a bunch of very smart criminologists with plenty of experience in dealing with exactly what is happening in the Ukraine.
Sadly, their advise fell on deaf ears.
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Originally Posted by
JMA
kaur,
With the greatest respect why would you believe anything Putin says in public forum?
Russian Soft Power Defined
Yep, a bit egotistical to quote myself herein, but what the hay :D
Going back to the link, click on the 2013 pdf in English.
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The use of soft power only attracts the attention of national security institutions if it forms a part of the influence operations of a foreign state, and the understanding of the Russian authorities of what soft power means is an example of that.
One method in Russia’s influence operations is to use extremists to
achieve Russia’s foreign policy goals.
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Originally Posted by
Stan
The annual Estonian Internal Security Service (ISS, also known as KaPo) report was published today, with a blue-yellow design as a nod toward Ukraine.