Building resilience to Russia's state-sponsored disinformation and propaganda narratives among Russian-speaking minorities in Estonia

The objective of the project is to reduce the susceptibility of Russian-speaking minorities in Estonia to Russia's state-sponsored disinformation and propaganda narratives. To achieve this, the project will pursue the following lines of action: 1) tracing and detecting Russia’s state-sponsored disinformation campaigns and narratives, as they evolve and are spread in the media and social media, with a focus on narratives that are particularly likely to gain traction and do harm in Estonia, including narratives aimed at undermining democracy and democratic institutions, degrading social cohesion, distorting history, or threatening the security and sovereignty or tarnishing the legitimacy and reputation of Estonia and its allies; 2) exposing and countering such disinformation campaigns and narratives by a) conducting lectures and workshops on media and information literacy, with a focus on Russia’s state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, to Russian-speaking audiences in Estonia, including students, youth, senior citizens and other interested groups; b) providing quality content (articles, interviews) on these topics to Russian-speaking media in Estonia c) writing two analytical reports exposing the patterns and recent developments of Russian disinformation narratives and their spread and resonance in Estonia, including in media and social media.