On June 19, 2015, the Ukrainian Institute for Strategic Studies hosted presentation of collected works "
The Different Faces of Soft Power: The Baltic States and Eastern Neighborhood between Russia and the EU
" issued by Latvian Institute of International Affairs.
The publication offers a series of German, Latvian, Russian and Ukrainian articles on various aspects of the soft power use by ...
... past” issue in order to add fuel into the conflict situation and create conditions for making people perceive the facts of the past only from the point of view of the right-wing elite-groups
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Until recently all Russia’s attempts to employ “soft power” mechanisms in the Baltic dimension have been discrete and non-systemic and inefficient.
Similar examples can be provided with regard to Latvia, whose leadership believes the referendum on granting to the Russian language the status of a state language to have been masterminded ...