PUTIN’S EUROPE

The European Liberal Forum, with the support of the Projekt: Polska Foundation, undertook the task of outlining what Putin’s Europe is. We invited twenty experts and editors from across the continent to show how the Russian dictator influences the lives of Europeans. We describe universal phenomena and trends. When the starting point for describing a problem is a single country or a group of countries, it does not at all mean that this problem is limited to this particular geographical area. On the contrary, it should be assumed that it is or will be present in one form or another in other countries as well. The question is: when and with what intensity? There are no places in Europe in which Putin would not be interested. Destabilising or subjugating every patch, even small or remote from Moscow, brings the dictator closer to his goal: reconstructing the empire, building Putin’s Europe.

Miłosz Hodun

Putin’s Europe is a unique volume, a sort of compendium of reflections about this new world order and testimonies from Eastern Europe and the Balkans to Latin America, on how Russia has invested over time in the realm of information warfare, disinformation, and external interference. The volume outlines how this strategy has been executed with extreme meticulousness — and a certain know-how accumulated during the years of the Cold War — to manipulate opinions, politics, and politicians, and to seek consensus among different crowds in the European Union and beyond.

Francesco Cappelletti

The European Liberal Forum, with the support of the Projekt: Polska Foundation, undertook the task of outlining what Putin’s Europe is. We invited twenty experts and editors from across the continent to show how the Russian dictator influences the lives of Europeans. We describe universal phenomena and trends. When the starting point for describing a problem is a single country or a group of countries, it does not at all mean that this problem is limited to this particular geographical area. On the contrary, it should be assumed that it is or will be present in one form or another in other countries as well. The question is: when and with what intensity? There are no places in Europe in which Putin would not be interested. Destabilising or subjugating every patch, even small or remote from Moscow, brings the dictator closer to his goal: reconstructing the empire, building Putin’s Europe.

Miłosz Hodun

Putin’s Europe is a unique volume, a sort of compendium of reflections about this new world order and testimonies from Eastern Europe and the Balkans to Latin America, on how Russia has invested over time in the realm of information warfare, disinformation, and external interference. The volume outlines how this strategy has been executed with extreme meticulousness — and a certain know-how accumulated during the years of the Cold War — to manipulate opinions, politics, and politicians, and to seek consensus among different crowds in the European Union and beyond.

Francesco Cappelletti