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🗣️ Host @AnnaFotyga_PE closes the 4th #Kalinowski forum.
"The fate of #Belarus and the whole region depends on #Ukraine's victory over #Russia."
"We're obliged to provide real help to those hundreds of journalists who fled #Belarus, but also those who remained. Despite the great fear of the Belarusian repression apparatus, they still try to give people access to a propaganda-free message."
🗣️ MEP @beatamk. #Kalinowski
"We are way past the battle of narratives. On our side, we have those who want to play by the rules, and on the other you have regimes trying to manipulate information with everything they have."
🗣️ @MBildziukiewicz, East Stratcom Task Force and part of @EUvsDisinfo. #Kalinowski
"Small media outlets are created because there is a need for them to exist. What they also need is institutional support to make them sustainable."
🗣️ @skowronskiwnet, Chief @radiownet. #Kalinowski
"#Belarus, unfortunately, has now become a new model for a way authoritarians can control access to independent information and the ways that authoritarian regimes can crack down on independent media, essentially by criminalising it."
🗣 @jamiemfly, President @RFERL. #Kalinowski
"A regular person finds it very difficult to recognise that propaganda is actually effective – normal people don't realise that lies are so effective. This is the greatest power of propaganda."
🗣️ @ARomasze, Director @Belsat_TV. #Kalinowski
"One day, #Lukashenko's regime will be no more, and we need to be prepared to fill the void with independent media."
🗣️ Aleh Aheyeu, Deputy Director of the Belarusian Association of Journalists. #Kalinowski
"We were extremely weak, as an international community and as independent media, in addressing people in the Russian language. And in the case of #Belarus, a huge majority of the population consumes media in Russian."
🗣️ @j_pomianowski, Exec. Director @EEDemocracy. #Kalinowski
"Blocking access to external sources of information is a difficult task in the internet era, but regimes like #Belarus and #Moscow are still trying to do it."
📣 MEP @KosmaZlotowski opens the panel as moderator. #Kalinowski
The 4th and final panel of the #Kalinowski Conference is now commencing.
We're putting #disinformation and #propaganda under the microscope.
📺 Watch now LIVE 🔴
🔗 https://nitter.eu/i/broadcasts/1jMJgeXVdXAKL
@KosmaZlotowski @j_pomianowski @ARomasze @jamiemfly @skowronskiwnet @beatamk
"The only thing that we see with the very weak sanctions imposed against Belarusian regime is that behaviour only got worse."
🗣️ Natalia Kaliada, CEO of #Belarus Free Theatre @BelFreeTheatre, writer, campaigner. #Kalinowski
"With all the crimes committed in '20 & '21: massive #HumanRights violations, hijacking an airplane, a hybrid migration war against the EU, the #Lukashenko regime added an act of aggression on top."
📣 Vladzimir Astapenka, Dep. Head of National Anti-Crisis Management of #Belarus
"The civilisational and geopolitical matrix has been changing. #Ukraine is leaving the post-soviet world"
🗣️ @liabedzka, Signatory of Belarusian independence. #Kalinowski
"We will give back to the Ukrainians and Belarusians their right to live in free and democratic societies."
🗣 @MStadejek, Representative of 🇵🇱 to the Political and Security Committee of the 🇪🇺 #Kalinowski
"With sanctions, one cannot be too greedy or too impatient. They work over time. And combined with the inability of the Putin system to reform itself, Russia faces a long-term deterioration of its economic situation..."
🗣️ @AmbDanFried, @AtlanticCouncil. #Kalinowski
"Sanctions alone will not win this war, but all those elements multiplied by an increase in readiness of our European & North-Atlantic Allies to welcome Ukraine as a fully-fledged member of the EU will ensure Russia's defeat."
🗣️ @Makeiev, Special envoy on sanctions @MFA_Ukraine
"People in #Belarus continue to be under extreme pressure since 2020 and the war in #Ukraine has made it even worse..."
🗣️ Maciej Popowski, Deputy Director-General for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations @EU_Commission
Panel 3 of the #Kalinowski Conference delves into the use of sanctions to deter #Lukashenko's abuses.
📺 Watch now LIVE 🔴
🔗 https://nitter.eu/i/broadcasts/1jMJgeXVdXAKL
@ZygisPavilionis @RubenHarutunian @Makeiev @MStadejek @AmbDanFried @Billbrowder @stephennix @KubiliusA
This morning's panels are over. But that's not the end.
Stand by. The #Kalinowski Conference will be back at 15:00 CET, delivering more talks on freedom and democracy in #Belarus with top-level speakers.
Join us.
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