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1. Vladimir Frolov, “Rise and Fall of Surkov's Sovereign Democracy,” Moscow Times, May 13, 2013, https://themoscowtimes.com/arti- cles/rise-and-fall-of-surkovs-sovereign-democracy-23891.
2. Marlene Laruelle, The ‘Russian World’: Russia's Soft Power and Geopolitical Imagination (Washington: Center on Global Interests, May 2015), http://globalinterests.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/FINAL-CGI_Russian-World_Marlene-Laruelle.pdf.
3. Denis Cenusa, Michael Emerson, Tamara Kovziridze, and Veronika Movchan, “Russias Punitive Trade Policy Measures towards Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia,” CEPS Working Document no. 400, September 2014, https://www.ceps.eu/publications/rus- sia%E2%80%99s-punitive-trade-policy-measures-towards-ukraine-moldova-and-georgia.
4. Laruelle, The ‘Russian World.’
5. Peter Pomerantsey, “Russia and the Menace of Unreality,” Atlantic, September 9, 2014, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/ archive/2014/09/russia-putin-revolutionizing-information-warfare/379880/.
6. Freedom in the World 2016 (New York: Freedom House, 2016), https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/free- dom-world-2016.
7. Jill Dougherty and Riina Kaljurand, Estonia's ‘Virtual Russian World’: The Influence of Russian Media on Estonia's Russian Speakers (Tallinn: International Centre for Defence and Security [RKK ICDS], October 2015), http://www.icds.ee/publications/article/esto- nias-virtual-russian-world-the-influence-of-russian-media-on-estonias-russian-speakers-1/.
Ibid.
9. Juhan Kivirahk, Integrating Estonia's Russian-Speaking Population: Findings of National Defense Opinion Surveys (Tallinn: RKK ICDS,
December 2014), https://www.icds.ee/fileadmin/media/icds.ee/failid/Juhan_Kivirahk_- Integrating Estonias Russian-Speaking_
Population.pdf.
10. TASS, “Foreign Ministry Says Latvian Ban of Russian TV Channel Violates Freedom of Speech,” Meduza, April 8, 2016, https://medu- za.io/en/news/2016/04/08/foreign-ministry-says-latvian-ban-of-russian-tv-channel-violates-freedom-of-speech.
11. Laruelle, The ‘Russian World.’
12. Andrii Klymenko, Human Rights Abuses in Russian-Occupied Crimea (Washington: Atlantic Council and Freedom House, 2015), https://freedomhouse.org/report/special-reports/human-rights-abuses-russian-occupied-crimea#.WA-iD_krK70.
13. David Blair, “Russian Forces ‘Practiced Invasion of Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Sweden,” Telegraph, June 26, 2015, http:// www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11/702328/Russian-forces-practised-invasion-of-Norway-Finland-Den- mark-and-Sweden.html.
14. See for example “Russia Launches Large-Scale Naval Drill in Black Sea Same Day as NATO,” RT, July 4, 2014, https://www.rt.com/news/170540-black-sea-russia-drill/.
15. Luke Harding, “Georgia Angered by Russia-Abkhazia Military Agreement,” Guardian, November 24, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/25/georgia-russia-abkhazia-military-agreement-putin.
16. Adrian Croft, “Russia Could Soon Run Multiple Ukraine-Sized Operations: U.S. General,” Reuters, January 16, 2015, http://Awww. reuters.com/article/us-nato-russia-idUSKBNOKP1F620150116.
17. lan Traynor, “Putin Claims Russian Forces ‘Could Conquer Ukraine Capital in Two Weeks,” Guardian, September 2, 2014, https:// www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/02/putin-russian-forces-could-conquer-ukraine-capital-kiev-fortnight.
18. Jeffrey Simpson, “Why Russia's Neighbors Are Getting Nervous,” Globe and Mail, September 5, 2014, http://www.theglobeandmail. com/opinion/why-russias-neighbours-are-getting-nervous/article20346364/.
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