Special data operation. Demilitarization ahead of schedule.
Eto Buziashvili
@buziashvili.bsky.social
Technology & emerging threats | Research Fellow, Atlantic Council | Visiting Fellow, NATO StratCom COE. 🇺🇦
Russia’s first federal AI law is now in effect... and Moscow wants to export its vision of “sovereign AI” abroad. But what kind of sovereignty will its customers actually get? The DFRLab's @buziashvili.bsky.social examines Russia’s emerging AI strategy: bit.ly/4ydSTaF
Russia wants to sell ‘sovereign AI’ abroad. Here’s what it’s really selling.
Russia’s new AI law puts domestic models under state control. Moscow now wants to sell the same model abroad.
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As Russia’s AI law takes effect today, I examine how Moscow is pitching technological independence built on foreign technology to governments that'd become dependent on Russia. By the law, AI can only be “sovereign” if it respects “traditional Russian spiritual and moral values” (yes, those ones).
Russia wants to sell ‘sovereign AI’ abroad. Here’s what it’s really selling.
Russia’s new AI law puts domestic models under state control. Moscow now wants to sell the same model abroad.
atlanticcouncil.org
2017 article: "At the opening of Russian Internet Week, instead of a red ribbon, an internet cable was ceremoniously cut." Well, took only 10 years. daily.afisha.ru/news/12207-n...
Georgia’s Absence From The 2026 NATO Summit Fuels Isolation Debate Featuring comments by yours truly. www.forbes.com/sites/markte...
Georgia’s Absence From The 2026 NATO Summit Fuels Isolation Debate
Georgia was absent from the 2026 NATO Summit agenda, fueling debate over whether Georgian Dream’s foreign policy is isolating the country from the West.
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“We are just tourists. Came to Stokholm to see 123-meter spire. And a door handle.”
Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 2mo ago🇸🇪 Sweden foiled a SVR spy operation in Stockholm. Two Russian officers recruited a foreign embassy employee to obtain sensitive data and influence debates. All 3 had diplomatic immunity and left Sweden. Säpo says 1 in 3 Russian diplomats is intelligence-linked.
It’s been a while since I recommended something, so here’s my latest rec: Drop everything and read this. Journalism: brilliant. Narrative: impeccable. Plot: Forsythian, except real. Sabotage: historic. Slava: 😉
Recommended by doctors. Approved by all spiritual leaders. Resets the nervous system. Realigns your chakras. Lowers cortisol.* Brings enlightenment in under 30 seconds. *Probably Namaste. 🕊️ youtu.be/za_urEQhuRc?...
An emerging attachk technique, in which adversaries systematically query LLMs to identify predictable hallucinated domains, register those domains, & exploit LLMs' recommendations to direct users or autonomous agents to attacker-controlled infrastructure. unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/phantom-squa...
Phantom Squatting: AI-Hallucinated Domains as a Software Supply Chain Vector
Attackers can exploit LLM domain hallucinations through phantom squatting to target supply chains. Read the analysis to learn more.
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Today is 500 days since Zelensky was told Ukraine has no cards.
10/10 headline. 10/10 move by Estonia. news.err.ee/1610071837/e...
Estonia gives Orthodox church 6 months to choose between God and the Kremlin
The Ministry of the Interior has given the Estonian Christian Orthodox Church, which is affiliated with the Moscow Patriarchate, six months to appoint a new metropolitan and sever its ties with Patria...
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🇺🇦 This map shows the dozens of missiles that fled towards mostly Kyiv and Odesa, and only a fraction of dronea launched against Ukraine. The monitoring channel attributes, as do Ukrainian authorities, the extent of destruction to the lack of sufficient air defense. 📸 Source: TG Channel Monitorwar
My modest contribution. First card goes to Prigozhin. Shame he couldn’t be here for today’s attack on Moscow.
A group of Ukrainian drones is heading toward the burning oil refinery in Moscow.
ჩემ საქართველოს ოლქს ვულოცავ პირველი რესპუბლიკის 108 წლის თავის უბილეს! თქვენი საზღვარი ახლა უფრო შორსაა მოსკოვიდან, ვიდრე ადრე იყო. თუმცა, რადგან ახლა მსოფლიო ჩემპიონატის წელია და საერთაშორისო სპორტული ღონისძიებები ტრადიციულად ჩემი შემოჭრის პერიოდია, საზღვარი შესაძლოა მთლიანად გაუქმდეს ამ ზაფხულზე
Yours truly threat-modeled Russia's new super-app. TL;DR: you should probably be concerned even if you live outside Russia and never download the app.
The domestic Russian 'super-app' that could create cross-border security risks
Russia's MAX app: The platform built to be unavoidable at home poses risks outside Russia's borders
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🧵War correspondent James Verini has covered several conflicts over the decades. What he sees in Ukraine is clear: Ukraine is winning the war, and Putin has no good options in a disaster of his own making.
Hey JD Vance, Ukraine is Winning (And Putin is Petrified)
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We never seen "Putin threaten genocide". We have seen: -Deportations -Killing civilians & targeting infra to set conditions of life calculated to bring destruction of 🇺🇦 & 🇺🇦ians -Genocidal rhetoric -Forced adoptions -Arrests for speaking 🇺🇦 -Forced change of citizenship... But no "threats"...
Dutch journalists have tracked frigate HNLMS Evertsen (F805) live during combat operations in east Mediterranean. By sending a Bluetooth tracker to a sailor with the official military post they managed to get live positions for several days. Dutch Navy has since adjusted protocols.
Olympic deception: Russia’s doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny The Insider exposes the FSB directorate that handles both athletic doping and political assassinations. theins.press/en/inv/291614
Olympic deception: Russia’s doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny
FSB colonel Dmitry Kovalev has traveled the world to support Team Russia, sitting with his colleagues in the stands at hockey matches in South Korea and…
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Who gets it right? The Baltics (again).
Estonia to halt $587M Infantry Fighting Vehicle buy in favor of drones, air defense - Breaking Defense
Defense Minister Hanno said that, given the diminishing battlefield utility of heavy equipment, it is not “reasonable to replace” CV90s over the next decade.
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How russia uses Orthodox Church as an arm of propaganda and espionage and how #Estonia combats real life war-nuns and spying priests balticsentinel.eu/8451357/esto...
Estonian Security Police Expelled Russian “War Nuns” and an Orthodox Cleric Was Caught Photographing Near a Military Base
Estonia’s internal security service KAPO has sharpened its warning about representatives of Russian Orthodoxy in the country, arguing in its latest annual report that some clergy tied to the Moscow Pa...
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Knowing Russian is not a waste of time — being able to read Russian propaganda and Z Telegram channels in the original right now is so much more enjoyable than reading Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.
Hope Hungarians will vote out Russia today and take back their country. Ruszkik haza!