Ukraine (closed; covers till August 2014)

[Tukhachevskii]

..... its good to see the world whilst wearing the other chap's moccasins.

[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.

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.

[Stan]

Yep, a bit egotistical to quote myself herein, but what the hay

Going back to the link, click on the 2013 pdf in English.

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.

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.