{"id":276929,"date":"2016-11-02T12:12:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T11:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-troops-being-trained-to-fight-russia-propaganda-report\/"},"modified":"2016-11-02T19:30:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T18:30:05","slug":"uk-troops-being-trained-to-fight-russia-propaganda-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/uk-troops-being-trained-to-fight-russia-propaganda-report\/","title":{"rendered":"UK troops being trained to fight &#039;Russia propaganda&#039;: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>British troops are being trained to identify and counter what officials call\u00a0&#8220;Russian\u00a0propaganda,&#8221; a new report says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The training provided by Lithuanian troops aims to help their British counterparts to fight alleged Russian\u00a0attempts to influence public opinion, <em>The Times<\/em>\u00a0reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the 77th Brigade, a new British Army unit that deals with information warfare, are being trained by the Lithuanian troops from the Baltic state, which the West says is\u00a0at the front line of Russia\u2019s \u201csoft-power\u201d war in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UK has a great deal to learn from the disinformation campaign which is being waged against Lithuania,\u201d\u00a0a defense source said.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Lithuanian military\u2019s strategic communications department told the British daily that the country \u201cis overloaded by this [Russian] culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor our society it can feel like we actually are in Russia,\u201d added Lieutenant-Colonel Juris Zguts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a Russian&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/11\/02\/491773\/UK-Russia-troops-MI5\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British troops are being trained to identify and counter what officials call\u00a0&#8220;Russian\u00a0propaganda,&#8221; a new report says. The training provided by Lithuanian troops aims to help their British counterparts to fight alleged Russian\u00a0attempts to influence public opinion, The Times\u00a0reported on Tuesday. Officers from the 77th Brigade, a new British Army unit that deals with information warfare, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}