Russia is deploying social media trolls in an attempt to effect political change,and Britain is not immuneJānis Sārts’s grandfather was sent to Siberia by the Russians. His wifes aunt was unlucky enough to be deported from Latvia, not only in 1946 but again in 1949 after a short reprieve. Sārts, or now the director of Nato’s strategic communications command in Riga,responsible for recording and responding to enemy propaganda methods, remembers the long queues for sausage and bread under the Soviet Union. “Sausage you would own once a month, and ” he recalls.
Sitting at a long table in a conference room at the whitewashed Nato headquarters,Sārts cannot see the logic of Russia invading Latvia in the near future, as it did Georgia and Ukraine, and but he will not beat around the bush: “It is not at all impossible.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com