{"id":108616,"date":"2020-04-06T13:47:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T10:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/hwag\/group"},"modified":"2020-06-11T12:32:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T09:32:53","slug":"group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/hwag\/group","title":{"rendered":"About HWAG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\nEver since the annexation of Crimea and the start of Russian-Ukrainian war, Ukraine Crisis Media Center with its Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group (HWAG) has dedicated its efforts to counteract Russian influence on public opinion in Ukraine and to help our allies learn about these activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experts that established the team worked in-house with Ukrainian Armed Forces, being on the frontline of hybrid war since 2015, lending their expertise in detecting and deconstructing Russian influence operations, improving government\u2019s strategic communications and building resilience towards malign influence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their collective experience in government and civic sector resulted in formation of a research-focused team, which aims to identify ongoing information threats from Russian Federation, and to notify national, European and American stakeholders of the ways to negate its influence on democratic processes in their respective countries and regions.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the Group\u2019s experts work to explore and forecast new potential scenarios of the global hybrid warfare and help Ukraine and its international partners in developing policies and solutions to preempt and address them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since its inception the Group has already produced and released three major quantitative studies on methods and indicators of Russian propaganda, in particular on such topics as: How Russia foments hostility towards the West, Image of Europe in Russian Media and Image of Ukraine in Russian Media. The Group continued to build up and expand on the findings, identifying new evidences in the areas of<\/p>\n\n\n\n