Hello everyone,
Welcome to my podcast Eyes on Eurasia, with Glen Howard! Today we are joined by Thomas Kent who is a Strategic Communications Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) in Washington, DC. Tom is a long-time expert on Russian propaganda and the author of two books on Disinformation.
His first book published in 2020 is entitled: Striking Back: Overt and Covert Options to Combat Russian Disinformation, while his second and most recent book is: How Russia Loses: Hubris and Miscalculation in Putin’s Kremlin published in 2023 by Lynne Rienner Publishers via The Jamestown Foundation.
Tom currently teaches at Columbia University about disinformation, and consults for governments, NGOs, news organizations, and corporations. From 2016 to 2018, Kent was president and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a congressionally-financed company providing independent news in 27 languages to 23 countries. Before that, he was a correspondent and executive at the Associated Press, where he where he worked in a variety of positions, including Moscow bureau chief, as chief of operations in Iran during the Iranian Islamic Revolution, and as a correspondent at NATO and the European Union.
In my podcast, Tom will explore the world of Russian information operations which has taken a surprising turn in recent months beyond what we have been accustomed to. Russian propaganda has become more sophisticated in recent months as it has become more intertwined with espionage and money throughout Europe.
Enjoy the podcast!
Glen
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