Russia attacking western liberal democracies Flashcards
What did the director general of mI5 say in the public statement in 2007?
Said that there was no decrease in the numbers of undeclared Russian intelligence officers in the UK
What did Edward Lucas and Luke Harding say?
The west is facing a new cold war and there has been a significant escalation of Russian operation
Sergei Lavrov (Russian Foreign minster) what did he call for?
Called for a post west world order and dismissed NATA as a relic of the cold war
What is Zersetzung?
A term that is best described as the political equivalent of what happens when you pour acid on organic material; dissolution and disintegration
- Casts doubt on the basic norms of western liberal order and its institutions
and to distort and thereby discredit the purposes of the EU