Status:approvedConfidence:
Low
Category:
InfoOps
Country:
Latvia
Country:
Russia
Country:
Estonia
Country:
Lithuania
Source:
csv-import
URL:https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1818983170630451629.html🔗
🕐Event Time:2024-08-01T12:00:00Z
➕Created:2025-11-22T22:47:53.474058+00:00
✏️Updated:2025-11-25T13:05:31.480947Z
Summary
Headline: SAB Latvia Annual Report on Russia's Hybrid War Operations in Latvia
Short Summary: The SAB's 2023 report highlights intense Russian propaganda efforts targeting Latvia's Russian-speaking population and strategies to counter them.
Description and Notes
A thread analyzing Russia's hybrid war operations in Latvia based on data from the Constitutional Protection Bureau (SAB) Annual Report 2023. The thread discusses the scale and nature of Russian propaganda and influence operations, the vulnerabilities in Latvia's society, and the SAB's recommendations for countering such threats.
Notes: Leaked ??Kremlin propaganda operations exposed. Kremlin propaganda attacks against Baltic countries mostly failing.
Evidence
Media
"SAB: 'The Russian-speaking community in Latvia is a strategic target for Russia's influence operations.'"
""A significant proportion of Russian speakers in Latvia rely primarily on Russian media and are susceptible to Russian propaganda.""
"SAB recommends: 'Reducing the role of Russian language in the information space and promoting integration'."
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"confidence": "Low",
"confidence_rationale": "Direct sourcing from Latvia's official security agency (SAB) and corroborating data visualizations, as well as quoted assessments and recommendations, lend high confidence.",
"continuous_since": "2022-02-24T00:00:00Z",
"continuous_summary": "Russian influence and propaganda operations against Latvia have persisted and intensified since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.",
"countries": [
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"Russia",
"Estonia",
"Lithuania"
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"description": "A thread analyzing Russia's hybrid war operations in Latvia based on data from the Constitutional Protection Bureau (SAB) Annual Report 2023. The thread discusses the scale and nature of Russian propaganda and influence operations, the vulnerabilities in Latvia's society, and the SAB's recommendations for countering such threats.",
"event_time_utc": "2024-08-01T12:00:00Z",
"evidence": [
"Screenshot includes charts showing media consumption by language group in Latvia, with high exposure to Russian-language sources among Russian speakers.",
"Annual report excerpts are presented with statistics and recommendations from SAB.",
"Thread specifically references the SAB Annual Report 2023 and discusses data and response strategies."
],
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"SAB: 'The Russian-speaking community in Latvia is a strategic target for Russia's influence operations.'",
"\"A significant proportion of Russian speakers in Latvia rely primarily on Russian media and are susceptible to Russian propaganda.\"",
"SAB recommends: 'Reducing the role of Russian language in the information space and promoting integration'."
],
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"category_raw": "Propaganda Operations",
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"evidence": [
"Screenshot includes charts showing media consumption by language group in Latvia, with high exposure to Russian-language sources among Russian speakers.",
"Annual report excerpts are presented with statistics and recommendations from SAB.",
"Thread specifically references the SAB Annual Report 2023 and discusses data and response strategies."
]
}
}
}
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"follow_up_by_country": [],
"follow_up_notes": "Leaked ??Kremlin propaganda operations exposed. Great report for how the Kremlin arranges propaganda attacks and information operations against the Baltic countries, ??Belarus and Moldova and how they are in large part failing.",
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"notes": "Leaked ??Kremlin propaganda operations exposed. Kremlin propaganda attacks against Baltic countries mostly failing.",
"primary_ref_links": [
"https://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/lrt-tyrimai/5/2330479/lrt-tyrimas-naujuose-kremliaus-dokumentuose-smegenu-plovimo-lietuvai-schema",
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"summary_short": "The SAB's 2023 report highlights intense Russian propaganda efforts targeting Latvia's Russian-speaking population and strategies to counter them.",
"url": "https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1818983170630451629.html"
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Raw Payload
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"Attack Type": "Propaganda operations",
"Borders Including Sea, Air, Violation or Sabotage (which countries)": "",
"Continuous? (e.g. Jammers)": "",
"Country (FI;EE;LV;LT;PL;BSR;Air)\nSeparated by Semicolon": "EE;LV;LT",
"Date": "1-Aug-24",
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"Follow-Up NOTES": "",
"Follow-Up incl. Investigation, Prosecution? (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "Leaked ??Kremlin propaganda operations exposed. Great report for how the Kremlin arranges propaganda attacks and information operations against the Baltic countries, ??Belarus and Moldova and how they are in large part failing. ",
"Latitude, Longitude (WGS84, Decimal Degrees)": "",
"NOTES": "Leaked ??Kremlin propaganda operations exposed. Kremlin propaganda attacks against Baltic countries mostly failing.",
"Political Disruptions w/ Laws to Favor Kremlin (which countries)": "",
"Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "",
"Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "",
"Screen Snapshot": "",
"Screen Snapshots": "",
"Type Dropdown": "",
"Where?\n(Air, Land, Sea)": ""
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