{"id":4765,"date":"2025-12-28T00:03:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T00:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=4765"},"modified":"2025-12-28T00:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T00:03:32","slug":"former-swiss-intelligence-officer-targeted-by-new-eu-sanctions-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/12\/28\/former-swiss-intelligence-officer-targeted-by-new-eu-sanctions-against-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Swiss intelligence officer targeted by new EU sanctions against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Swissinfo reports that the EU sanctioned former Swiss colonel Jacques Baud, describing him as a conduit for pro\u2011Russian propaganda and conspiracy narratives under measures aimed at information manipulation.<br>The article notes these sanctions are part of a broader EU package responding to information manipulation and cyberattacks. It also highlights a regulatory asymmetry: while the EU can sanction individuals, Switzerland indicated it would not mirror this \u201cdestabilising activities\u201d list\u2014showing how fragmented frameworks can leave gaps in countering digital influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: December 19, 2025. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/foreign-affairs\/former-swiss-intelligence-officer-targeted-by-new-eu-sanctions-on-russia\/90665703\">swissinfo.ch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swissinfo reports that the EU sanctioned former Swiss colonel Jacques Baud, describing him as a conduit for pro\u2011Russian propaganda and conspiracy narratives under measures aimed at information manipulation.The article notes these sanctions are part of a broader EU package responding to information manipulation and cyberattacks. It also highlights a regulatory asymmetry: while the EU can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":4769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unregulated-digitalization-of-political-arena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4789,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions\/4789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}