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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUSCONF</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Conference on Russia Papers</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub"/>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>BDC</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2026_12_URBAN_STASKIEWICZ_AND_DVORAK</article-id>
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        <article-title>Russian Federation’s Propaganda Strategies and NATO’s Countermeasures: Information Warfare and Countering Disinformation</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4354-3764</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Urban</surname>
            <given-names>Mariusz</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:jasminmariusz@wp.pl">jasminmariusz@wp.pl</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8321-8088</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Staśkiewicz</surname>
            <given-names>Urszula</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:urszulastaskiewicz@op.pl">urszulastaskiewicz@op.pl</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1052-8741</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Dvorak</surname>
            <given-names>Jaroslav</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:Jaroslav.Dvorak@ku.lt">Jaroslav.Dvorak@ku.lt</email>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>6</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>156</fpage>
      <lpage>168</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>02</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>05</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Open Access ©</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>Baltic Defence College,</copyright-holder>
        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
          <license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>The article’s primary goal is to assess the Russian-led disinformation operations and to examine NATO’s counterstrategies within the broader context of information warfare. By understanding motivations, mechanisms and consequences of Russian Federation’s use of propaganda and disinformation, one gains a better ability to counteract such practices, bolsters the psychological resilience of a society, and becomes able to establish a sustainable regional information security model. In the context of this work, we understand the existing model as a set of technological, organisational, political, and sustainability measures that create the prerequisites for the states of the region to achieve a high level of information space security.</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Propaganda Strategies</kwd>
        <kwd>Information Warfare</kwd>
        <kwd>Disinformation</kwd>
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