title: Russian Strategic Communications and Implications for NATO
abstract: Abstract : Recent events in Eastern Europe have raised serious concerns over the security situation on the North Atlantic Treaty Organizations (NATO) eastern flank. Russia's activities which shaped and enabled a successful annexation of Crimea with barely a shot being fired in 2014 were actually quite remarkable and forced NATO, and certainly non-NATO members in the region, to take notice. Russian influence activities should be regarded as a primary threat to the peace, security, and stability o