{"id":17311,"date":"2026-09-21T15:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T19:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=17311"},"modified":"2026-09-21T15:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T19:34:25","slug":"of-drones-bombs-and-fake-news-how-to-respond-to-russian-operations-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/event\/of-drones-bombs-and-fake-news-how-to-respond-to-russian-operations-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Drones, Bombs and Fake News: How to Respond to Russian Operations in Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n            <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                                                        <\/div>\n        \n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Registration Required. Event is hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\">Eastern European and Transatlantic Network. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"description\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Description<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drones&nbsp;over airports, bombs hidden in cargo planes, blatant disinformation campaigns targeting democratic elections. Russia\u2019s hybrid campaign against Europe has moved from the shadows into daily headlines. Germany, one of its central targets, has just publicly attributed the Leipzig\/Halle airport sabotage attempt to the Russian government and closed its last remaining consulate in Bonn. Yet these steps are unlikely to end Russia\u2019s hybrid campaign. Drawing on the latest evidence, this talk will discuss the options available to Europe and Germany, specifically, and how this confrontation might unfold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"about-the-speaker\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Speaker<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Mikhail Polianskii is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the International Institutions Department at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), based in Germany. His research focuses on Russian politics, foreign policy, hybrid warfare, and the post-Soviet space. He has published on Russian domestic and foreign policy in leading journals such as&nbsp;<em>Contemporary Security Policy<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Europe-Asia Studies<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Communist and Post-Communist Studies<\/em>, and is the author of several chapters in edited volumes and handbooks on post-Soviet politics. He has held visiting positions at institutions including Carleton University and the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies, and has participated in collaborative research networks on Eastern Europe and Eurasia.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":17312,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[86,87,9],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-17311","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_event_type-86","cu_event_type-eetn","cu_event_type-eurus"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2026-09-24 13:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2026-09-24 14:30:00","cu_event_add_to_calendar":"show","cu_event_location_type":"hybrid","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_building":"RB","cu_event_meeting_room":"3202","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_post_thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.carleton.ca\/truth\/images\/1914\/announcement-alert.jpg","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":{"title":"Click Here to Register","url":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/event\/of-drones-bombs-and-fake-news-how-to-respond-to-russian-operations-in-europe\/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email","target":""},"cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/17311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/17311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17316,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/17311\/revisions\/17316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=17311"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=17311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}