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SUMMARY:Russian active measures under Putin: how should Europe respond?
LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (LS
 E campus\, venue tbc to ticketholders)
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 20 October 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakersOleksandr V. Danyl
 yukDr Jack WatlingChairProfessor Alexander Evans OBE FRHistSJoin leading e
 xperts for a discussion on how Russian tradecraft is evolving and what gov
 ernments can do to detect\, disrupt and counter it.How does Putin’s Russ
 ia engage in contemporary subversion? In what ways is it seeking to shape 
 the thinking and decisions of political leaders\, advisers and publics acr
 oss Europe through covert influence and manipulation?As the geopolitical l
 andscape becomes increasingly complex\, Russia’s methods continue to evo
 lve. This event will examine what is new in the toolkit\, the challenges t
 hese tactics pose for democratic societies and how liberal democracies sho
 uld respond.Meet our speakers and chairOleksandr V. Danylyuk closely coope
 rated for many years with the Ukrainian government structures in the defen
 ce\, security and intelligence sectors. In 2014\, he was the Chief Advisor
  to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine. He subsequently served as a Specia
 l Advisor to the Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine\, Ass
 istant to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine\, and for 
 many years was also a member of the Parliamentary Working Group on Counter
 ing Hybrid Threats. For the past few years\, he has been the coordinator o
 f the Ukraine-NATO platform for the early detection and countering of hybr
 id threats.Jack Watling is Senior Research Fellow for Applied Military Sci
 ences at the Royal United Services Institute. Jack works closely with the 
 British military on the development of concepts of operation\, assessments
  of the future operating environment\, and conducts operational analysis o
 f contemporary conflicts. Jack is the author Statecraft: The New Rules of 
 Power in a Divided World and The Arms of the Future: Technology and Close 
 Combat in the Twenty First Century.Alexander Evans teaches international s
 ecurity and technology at the LSE School of Public Policy. He has previous
 ly served as an Adviser to the Prime Minister in 10 Downing Street\, Strat
 egy Director in the Cabinet Office and Director Cyber at the Foreign Offic
 e. He led the UN Security Council expert mission\, served as British Deput
 y and Acting High Commissioner to India and briefly to Pakistan\, and was 
 a senior adviser in the U.S. Department of State. He was previously a Seni
 or Fellow at Yale\, a Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College\, Oxford\, 
 and Henry Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress.More about this event
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