Russia’s attempts to influence the US election via hacking and selectively leaking sensitive US government and political information have been widely documented, but Russia is not conducting those operations in isolation. Their hacking efforts are accompanied by a large-scale, long-term, and remarkabl...
Our empirical investigation of exposure to social media posts from foreign influence campaigns is motivated by recent research on these campaigns12, and relies on a three-wave longitudinal survey of US respondents that was conducted by YouGov, a major public opinion research firm. The survey data ...
Does Public Opinion on Foreign Policy Affect Elite Preferences? Evidence from the 2022 US Sanctions against Russia Does public opinion on international affairs affect elites' policy preferences? Most research assumes that it does, but this key assumption is difficult to... Peez Anton,Bethke Felix S...
which has cost the lives of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian people, and billions of dollars in damages. It's another matter that the combined efforts of the US, the European Union and NATO have had no impact on Russia, let alone weaken it. ...
This isn't the first time Russian hackers have made such attacks. The Russians used similar tactics and techniques across Europe and Eurasia, for example, to influence public opinion there. Russian hackers have been accused of launchingdistributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Russian news ...
Such a development could embolden Russia’s geopolitical strategies. Trump’s threats to withdraw the US from NATO could potentially encourage Russian assertiveness towards NATO member states, testing the alliance’s unity and resolve. China’s stance on Taiwan might also be strengthened as a result...
“If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to help Russia; and if Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible.” Truman was not called out as a cynic when he spoke these words from the floor of the Senate. On the ...
Unless Russia “stops the violence” in Syria, extremists would “exploit the vacuum” to attack Russian interests and even cities, the US State Department has said.
6 that in the past eight years from 2014, a group of countries, led by the US, imposed 8,068 sanctions designations on Russia, making it the most sanctioned country in the world followed by Iran. Since February 22 this year, 5,314 new sanctions designations have been slapped on Russia...
As can be seen from Table 1, the US press has been the most critical of countries that sequentially are China, Russia, Israel, Canada, the UK, Mexico, and Japan. In terms of the number of public opinion reports, there has been ...