HWAG works 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. We aim 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.
MAX is a new Russian messenger developed by the Russian corporation VK in 2025. Kremlin ideologues explain its launch with several arguments: – import substitution of WhatsApp and Telegram (despite the fact that the latter social platform is a Russian development, the local intelligence services do not have full control over Telegram’s servers) – «for […] More
