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Washington-financed internal counter-intelligence program entrusted to NGO

Screenshot of the SBU information campaign. © SBU/YouTube

In a hurry to deploy its counter-disinformation strategy, Kyiv recently tasked an NGO, the Center for Strategic Communications, or StratCom Ukraine, with counterintelligence and counter-influence campaigns for the SBU. [...] (347 words)

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Ukrainian Deputy Interior Minister Yevgeniy Yenin. © @Eugene Enin/Facebook

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