66 Bulgaria and Hungary. Hungary represents a case where the government has enabled space for Kremlin interference to shore
up its own political strength, which is largely based on anti-migrant and anti-European integration policies. Finally, the country examples in the following two chapters are not an exhaustive compilation of Russian government interference throughout Europe, but an illustrative list of examples from recent years. The examples provide important lessons about tried and true Kremlin interference tools, as well as best practices to neutralize them. President Putin and the Russian government
are not master strategists, nor are they always successful in their assaults on democracies. But a few notable qualities make the Russian Federation a considerable opponent scale, persistence, and adaptability. The
United States and our allies, then, must also develop a more nimble, adaptable toolkit to deter and defend against continued meddling by the Kremlin.
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Kim Zetter, Inside the Cunning Unprecedented Hack of Ukraine’s Power Grid
Wired, Mar. 3, 2016. The congressionally supported provision of lethal assistance to the Ukrainian military is long overdue and will hopefully increase the battlefield cost for Russian forces active in the country.
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All the Kremlin’s Men, at 89-90.
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