The impact of hybrid operations on Norway and Europe // AP Forum – Day 2

The Norwegian Helsinki Committee, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and The Barents Observer invite you to a two-day event in memory of the renowned Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

How do disinformation campaigns targeting Norway and Europe link to the battlefield in Ukraine? How do hybrid wars influence Norway and the Northern border regions in particular?

You can also follow the event on Facebook.

Program

08:30 Registration and coffee

09:00 Welcome
Gunnar M. Ekeløve-Slydal, Deputy Secretary General, NHC

09:05 Russian hybrid warfare in Ukraine
Stanislav Aseyev, Ukrainian journalist, writer, and activist, who spent 962 days in Izoliatsia torture prison in the occupied Donetsk. In conversation with Arve Hansen, NHC

09:35 Russian influence operations
Eskil Grendahl Sivertsen, special adviser for Cyber-Social Propaganda & Influence, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI)

10:00 Coffee break

10:10 How does Russian propaganda work
Maria Borzunova, Russian journalist and video blogger

10:40 Disinformation: the case of Norway as seen from Oslo
Bjørn Johan Berger, independent consultant

10:55 Russian influence operations in Norway’s northern region
Thomas Nilsen, editor, The Barents Observer

11:10 Conversation on Russian influence operations and responses
Maria Borzunova, Eskil Grendahl Sivertsen, Bjørn Johan Berger and Thomas Nilsen
Moderator: Professor Kari Aga Myklebost, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

11:45 Lunch break

12:15 Facts matter. How investigative journalism can contribute to justice in Chechnya and Ukraine
Lene Wetteland, head of DAH, Norwegian Helsinki Committee

12:30 Documentation of war crimes and a Special Tribunal for Russia’s crime of aggression against Ukraine
Gunnar M. Ekeløve-Slydal (NHC) and associate professor Gaiane Nuridzhanian (UiT) in conversation with Lene Wetteland (NHC)

13:00 End

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