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Amb. Shota Gvineria, Senior Fellow, Economic Policy Research Center (Georgia) at @lvivSF Situations of Georgia and Ukraine are similar in many ways: 1) the wars going on in Ukraine and Georgia are the same war for Russia – the war for influence in the region;
More secure environment enhancing trade, capacities against cyber attacks are to name a few arguments of how the private sector will benefit from participating in a defence as they may be a target as well. #LvivSF
We need to stop thinking about NATO in terms of black and white, joining or not joining. The integration process itself is bringing huge benefits to the countries in terms of legislation and standards harmonization.
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@GlenGrant , Former Colonel at British Army (UK) at @lvivSF on big military system change in Ukraine. Current structures were designed for soviet type of warfare. You fight and lots of people die. And that was ok. These structures are not designed for mobile warfare. #LvivSF
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One man cannot run your system especially if he has to wait for decision of the president weather to start shooting. You cannot run army on the phone. #LvivSF
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We should concentrate on what we have and spend our energy on improving it. Spending money generally on reforms doesn’t work. We have to ask people on the ground what they need. We have to make sure that each brigade is being supported and this support is getting better. #LvivSF
Glen Grant, Former Colonel at British Army (UK) at @lvivSF: Issue is how to get people into army. We can have a long debate on whether conscription system works. But people without equipment are not an army. You can't make someone fight without providing them with all needed.
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Rosian Vasiloi, security analyst, Institute for Development and Social Initiatives (Moldova) at @lvivSF
During 27 years of Russian aggression in Transnistria Moldova has not recognized this fact. Only in 2017 Constitutional court recognized Russian troops in Transnistria.
Moreover, our government implements the so-called "strategy of small steps", provides for re-integration people instead of re-integration of the territory. The strategy of small steps is just providing occupied territories with sovereignty which is a great trap for Moldova.
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Our Moldovan experience of occupied territories makes me say it out loud to my Ukrainian friends: "Do not repeat our mistakes!" #LvivSF
Nerijus Maliukevičius (Vilnius IIR and Political Science) at @lvivSF
There is an abundance of tools in countering propaganda. What we are sometimes lacking is the political will to tackle it. And it is probably more true with regard to the Western states.
The study has discovered vulnerabilities that expose states to disinfo attacks: low political trust, soviet nostalgia, absence of Russian threat in public discourse (no tools delivered to tackle it), low level of civil participation and integration of national minorities.#LvivSF
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What Russia does is a war against information. Russia is trying to brake our democracy through a war against journalism and electoral systems. Solution is in reinforcing media competences, enriching school education with full course on infosecurity and social networks.#LvivSF
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