Olga Chyzhova is the President of Ukrainian Prism Europe. Ms. Chyzhova is a leader of several international research projects in the field of disinformation, including the Disinformation Resilience Index and COVID-19 Disinformation Response Index, focusing on communication activities of the Kremlin’s information and psychological campaigns in Central and Eastern Europe. Olga Chyzhova was previously the editor-in-chief of the monthly Eastern Partnership Think Bridge Digest and coordinator of the Eastern Partnership Think Bridge Network, uniting think tanks from the region. In 2019-2022, she was a member of the Steering Committee of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum. Olga Chyzhova is also a co-founder of the Digital Communication Network, an international association connecting professionals of the digital age to generate ideas, tools, and products for the media, NGOs, and governments in more than 30 countries.
Information manipulation campaigns have long been a part of Russia’s war machine toolkit, preparing public opinion and laying the ground for military operations. The EU has taken some action to prevent the Kremlin’s malign influence on its information space, the European Parliament also being a part of that effort. But as a year of full-scale…
