How do disinformation campaigns targeting Norway and Europe link to the battlefield in Ukraine? How do hybrid wars influence Norway and the Northern border regions in particular?
Anna Politkovskaya Forum is a two-day event in memory of the renowned Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Program
08:30 Registration and coffee
09:00 Welcome
Gunnar M. Ekeløve-Slydal, Deputy Secretary General, NHC
09:05 Russian hybrid warfare in Ukraine
Stanislav Aseyev, Ukrainian journalist, writer, and activist, who spent 962 days in Izoliatsia torture prison in the occupied Donetsk. In conversation with Arve Hansen, NHC
09:35 Russian influence operations
Eskil Grendahl Sivertsen, special adviser for Cyber-Social Propaganda & Influence, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI)
10:00 Coffee break
10:10 How does Russian propaganda work
Maria Borzunova, journalist, Novaya Gazeta
10:40 Disinformation: the case of Norway as seen from Oslo
Bjørn Johan Berger, independent consultant
10:55 Russian influence operations in Norway’s northern region
Thomas Nilsen, editor, The Barents Observer
11:10 Conversation on Russian influence operations and responses
Maria Borzunova, Eskil Grendahl Sivertsen, Bjørn Johan Berger and Thomas Nilsen
Moderator: Professor Kari Aga Myklebost, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
11:45 Lunch break
12:15 Facts matter. How investigative journalism can contribute to justice in Chechnya and Ukraine
Lene Wetteland, head of DAH, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
12:30 Documentation of war crimes and a Special Tribunal for Russia’s crime of aggression against Ukraine
Gunnar M. Ekeløve-Slydal (NHC) and associate professor Gaiane Nuridzhanian (UiT) in conversation with Lene Wetteland (NHC)
13:00 End
