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Marking the End of 2025: A Year of Monit...

Dec 31, 2025

Season’s Greetings and New Year Message ...

Dec 31, 2025

Democracy does not defend itself: What 2...

Dec 30, 2025

Ressmann: Standing with Ukraine Is Stand...

Dec 30, 2025

Casale: Ukraine Is Not Just a Conflict &...

Dec 29, 2025

Hybrid Operations Across Europe on the R...

Dec 29, 2025

Gudrun Steinacker: Civil Society Is the ...

Dec 29, 2025

THE IDEOLOGICAL ABYSS: How the Cold War ...

Dec 28, 2025

ANALYSIS

From Death Lament to Digital Seduction: Lullabies for a Post-Truth World — Russia’s AI Propaganda Bullets
How artificial intelligence is being used to soften culture, simulate authority, and prepare minds for influence — and why that matters for democracy

Dec 30, 2025 | HYBRID THREATS, AI & TECHNOLOGY, ANALYSIS

By Jabir Deralla and the CIVIL Hybrid Threats Monitoring Team The most dangerous propaganda...

Hybrid Operations Across Europe on the Rise
EARLY WARNING REPORT | Pro-Kremlin messaging, mobilisation narratives, and hybrid risk in Europe and the Western Balkans. Focus period: 22–28 December 2025, with a 7–14 day outlook

Dec 29, 2025 | ANALYSIS, DISINFO, EUROPE, HYBRID THREATS, WAR IN UKRAINE, WARS & CONFLICTS

By Jabir Derallaand the CIVIL Hybrid Threats Monitoring Team In the final week of December 2025,...

OPINION

No Peace Without Justice, No Europe Without Ukraine
How a backroom deal threatens Ukraine’s sovereignty and Europe’s future

Nov 20, 2025 | OPINION, WAR IN UKRAINE

By Jabir Deralla When an aggressor speaks of ‘peace’ while his missiles still fall on cities and...

POLITICS

Europe at a Crossroads: Roger Casale Warns of Long Conflict and Urgent Need for Support to Ukraine

Dec 4, 2025 | WAR IN UKRAINE, NEWSROOM, POLITICS, WARS & CONFLICTS

In an interview for W News with Leigh-Ann Gerrans at Al Arabiya English, Roger Casale from the...

WARS & CONFLICTS

Ressmann: Standing with Ukraine Is Standing for Europe’s Democratic Future

Dec 30, 2025 | DEMOCRACY, NEWSROOM, WAR IN UKRAINE

At the international conference “Defending Democracy: Horizons of Freedom,” Dr. Wolfgang Ressmann,...

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Season’s Greetings and New Year Message from CIVIL: Truth Matters

Dec 31, 2025 | PRESS RELEASE, DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY, STATEMENTS

At the end of 2025, we take a moment to reflect — not only on the passing of time, but on the...

From Death Lament to Digital Seduction: Lullabies for a Post-Truth World — Russia’s AI Propaganda Bullets
How artificial intelligence is being used to soften culture, simulate authority, and prepare minds for influence — and why that matters for democracy

Dec 30, 2025 | HYBRID THREATS, AI & TECHNOLOGY, ANALYSIS

By Jabir Deralla and the CIVIL Hybrid Threats Monitoring Team The most dangerous propaganda...

Marking the End of 2025: A Year of Monitoring and Strategic Actions — A Snapshot of CIVIL’s National and International Work

Dec 31, 2025 | CIVIL SOCIETY, DEMOCRACY, NEWSROOM, PRESS RELEASE

As 2025 draws to a close, CIVIL marks the end of this turbulent year with one more contribution to...

(LOCAL ELECTIONS 2025) The voices of hate that humiliated democracy: Sexism, ethnic divisions and nationalism

Nov 27, 2025 | ANALYSIS, ELECTIONS, HATE SPEECH, MEDIA, NEWSROOM

Ahead of the Local Elections 2025, North Macedonia faced a serious wave of hate speech, ethnic and...

From Death Lament to Digital Seduction: Lullabies for a Post-Truth World — Russia’s AI Propaganda Bullets
How artificial intelligence is being used to soften culture, simulate authority, and prepare minds for influence — and why that matters for democracy

Dec 30, 2025 | HYBRID THREATS, AI & TECHNOLOGY, ANALYSIS

By Jabir Deralla and the CIVIL Hybrid Threats Monitoring Team The most dangerous propaganda...

From Illusion to Implementation: Confronting Failures and Charting a Circular Future for the Western Balkans

Jun 12, 2025 | ANALYSIS, GREEN, NEWSROOM

POLICY ASSESSMENT AND RECOMMENDATIONS This policy assessment outlines critical challenges and...

Serbia’s sustainable packaging push: A circular economy model from the private sector
Jun 11, 2025 | GREEN, NEWSROOM
Montenegro’s Community Composting Efforts: A Grassroots Circular Economy Model
Jun 11, 2025 | GREEN, NEWSROOM

Edward P. Joseph on Serbia, NATO, and the Kosovo Model: A Strategic Proposal with Implications for Ukraine
An exclusive interview examining a Balkans-centered strategy to weaken Russian influence and strengthen Ukraine’s position.

Dec 17, 2025 | DEMOCRACY, INTERVIEW, MULTIMEDIA, NATO, WAR IN UKRAINE

Edward P. Joseph is a leading American voice on the Balkans and a prominent expert on conflict...

(LOCAL ELECTIONS 2025) The voices of hate that humiliated democracy: Sexism, ethnic divisions and nationalism

Nov 27, 2025 | ANALYSIS, ELECTIONS, HATE SPEECH, MEDIA, NEWSROOM

Ahead of the Local Elections 2025, North Macedonia faced a serious wave of hate speech, ethnic and...

(LOCAL ELECTIONS 2025) The voices of hate that humiliated democracy: Sexism, ethnic divisions and nationalism

Nov 27, 2025 | ANALYSIS, ELECTIONS, HATE SPEECH, MEDIA, NEWSROOM

Ahead of the Local Elections 2025, North Macedonia faced a serious wave of hate speech, ethnic and...

Ressmann: Standing with Ukraine Is Standing for Europe’s Democratic Future

Dec 30, 2025 | DEMOCRACY, NEWSROOM, WAR IN UKRAINE

At the international conference “Defending Democracy: Horizons of Freedom,” Dr. Wolfgang Ressmann,...

The myths of the Russian military power: Nonexistent tanks, suspension of production and repairs of tanks and missile systems

Apr 19, 2022 | ANALYSIS, DISINFORMATION, EUROPE, POLITICS, WAR IN UKRAINE

By XHABIR DERALLA The myth of the Russian military power is probably one of the oldest and most...

From Death Lament to Digital Seduction: Lullabies for a Post-Truth World — Russia’s AI Propaganda Bullets
How artificial intelligence is being used to soften culture, simulate authority, and prepare minds for influence — and why that matters for democracy

Dec 30, 2025 | HYBRID THREATS, AI & TECHNOLOGY, ANALYSIS

By Jabir Deralla and the CIVIL Hybrid Threats Monitoring Team The most dangerous propaganda...

SOCIETY

Marking the End of 2025: A Year of Monitoring and Strategic Actions — A Snapshot of CIVIL’s National and International Work

Dec 31, 2025 | CIVIL SOCIETY, DEMOCRACY, NEWSROOM, PRESS RELEASE

As 2025 draws to a close, CIVIL marks the end of this turbulent year with one more contribution to...

From Death Lament to Digital Seduction: Lullabies for a Post-Truth World — Russia’s AI Propaganda Bullets

How artificial intelligence is being used to soften culture, simulate authority, and prepare minds for influence — and why that matters for democracy

Hybrid Operations Across Europe on the Rise

EARLY WARNING REPORT | Pro-Kremlin messaging, mobilisation narratives, and hybrid risk in Europe and the Western Balkans. Focus period: 22–28 December 2025, with a 7–14 day outlook

No Peace Without Justice, No Europe Without Ukraine

How a backroom deal threatens Ukraine’s sovereignty and Europe’s future

The elections and the coalition: VLEN has rocked Mickoski’s boat

However, in the complex ethnic structure of the country, this is not at all naive – we have incompetent leaders in power who came to that position with heated nationalist slogans. Now they can only reap the fruits. It’s bad that the consequences are - general!

Thank You for Standing for Truth and Democracy

Defending Democracy: The Battlefield of Truth – Skopje, 8–10 October 2025

Hybrid Operations Across Europe on the Rise

EARLY WARNING REPORT | Pro-Kremlin messaging, mobilisation narratives, and hybrid risk in Europe and the Western Balkans. Focus period: 22–28 December 2025, with a 7–14 day outlook

Human Rights Day 2025: When Democracy Is Under Attack, Silence Is Complicity

A call to solidarity, dignity, and democratic resilience.

From Death Lament to Digital Seduction: Lullabies for a Post-Truth World — Russia’s AI Propaganda Bullets

How artificial intelligence is being used to soften culture, simulate authority, and prepare minds for influence — and why that matters for democracy

Hybrid Operations Across Europe on the Rise

EARLY WARNING REPORT | Pro-Kremlin messaging, mobilisation narratives, and hybrid risk in Europe and the Western Balkans. Focus period: 22–28 December 2025, with a 7–14 day outlook

THE FRACTURE LINE: Russia and the Battle for Democracy in the Western Balkans — Early 2026

EARLY WARNING REPORT Series | Q1 2026 Outlook (January–March 2026)

From Death Lament to Digital Seduction: Lullabies for a Post-Truth World — Russia’s AI Propaganda Bullets

How artificial intelligence is being used to soften culture, simulate authority, and prepare minds for influence — and why that matters for democracy

THE IDEOLOGICAL ABYSS: How the Cold War Rewrote the Dream of Intelligence

(History of AI, Part 2) From Cold War paranoia to digital utopias — how power, ideology, and ambition shaped intelligence and its histories.

When Beauty Becomes a Weapon: AI Aesthetics in Russia’s Influence Operations

How AI turns culture, memory, and emotion into influence

Edward P. Joseph on Serbia, NATO, and the Kosovo Model: A Strategic Proposal with Implications for Ukraine

An exclusive interview examining a Balkans-centered strategy to weaken Russian influence and strengthen Ukraine’s position.

Turning Point in Tbilisi-Berlin Relations: On Georgia’s Authoritarian Rule, Germany’s Response, Moscow’s Hand and the Role of Civil Society – Interview with Dr Wolfgang Ressmann

CURRENTS Podcast episode with Dr Wolfgang Ressmann

North Macedonia Local Elections 2025: Generally Peaceful Process Marked by Serious Systemic and Institutional Weaknesses — CIVIL’s Preliminary Assessment

CIVIL assesses that the 2025 Local Elections in North Macedonia were held without major incidents, yet burdened by deep structural, institutional, and political weaknesses that call into question the integrity of the electoral process and the democratic capacity of the institutions and society.

CIVIL’s third report: Over 230 reports from the ground, cases of limited voting rights and party pressures

Repeated incidents with people released from prison for the weekend, remarks about the secrecy of voting, inaccessible polling stations and presence of party observers with marks

Hybrid Operations Across Europe on the Rise

EARLY WARNING REPORT | Pro-Kremlin messaging, mobilisation narratives, and hybrid risk in Europe and the Western Balkans. Focus period: 22–28 December 2025, with a 7–14 day outlook

From Death Lament to Digital Seduction: Lullabies for a Post-Truth World — Russia’s AI Propaganda Bullets

How artificial intelligence is being used to soften culture, simulate authority, and prepare minds for influence — and why that matters for democracy

THE IDEOLOGICAL ABYSS: How the Cold War Rewrote the Dream of Intelligence

(History of AI, Part 2) From Cold War paranoia to digital utopias — how power, ideology, and ambition shaped intelligence and its histories.

When Beauty Becomes a Weapon: AI Aesthetics in Russia’s Influence Operations

How AI turns culture, memory, and emotion into influence

Truth Matters. Democracy Depends on It