RIGA, Latvia — For a think tank, StratCom, NATO’s Strategic Communications Center of Excellence, with its piked gate and guardhouse, looks more like a fortress.
During the Soviet era, the institute’s martial-looking headquarters on Kalniciema Street was a Red Army recruitment center. Today, StratCom is on the front lines of the palpably intensifying information war in the Baltic region, as the Kremlin ratchets up its efforts to destabilize the fragile democracies of the former Soviet republics.
As the alternating Latvian and NATO flags outside indicate, the sympathies of StratCom’s 30-strong staff of researchers and analysts lie firmly on the Western side.
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Source: European Voice
