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334 See, for instance, Trollové se aktivovali. Za raketu v Polsku může kdokoli, jen ne Rusko, iDNES (2022); Trollové se aktivovali. Za raketu v Polsku může kdokoli, jen ne Rusko, accessed 20 March 2023.

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336 See Section 4.7 of this report.

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351 Warsaw research workshop 9 February 2023.

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353 The average annual inflation rate in 2022 was 15.1 percent. See Public database CZSO and Inflation rate for more details.

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356 Twitter page of the Ministry of Health in Poland (2022). Tweet: campaign to promote the vaccination of Ukrainian children in Poland, accessed 27 March 2023.

357 The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs data on the support received is different (i.e., for the first person in a household, it is CZK 4,470 and not CZK 3,550, as listed in the photo).

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361 Project research workshops; see also: Czech Elves (2022). Monthly report – November 2022, accessed 20 March 2023.

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363 Bratislava research workshop 8 March 2023.

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365 STEM (2021). Jedna-společnost-–-různé-světy, accessed 17 January 2023.

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370 Chisinau research workshop 2 March 2023.

371 See, for example, IONEL SCLAVONE, evz.ro (2023). Diana Șoșoacă, scenariu conspiraționist despre viitorul României: „Există o facţiune ce porneşte din Iaşi”, accessed 23 March 2023.

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390 See the TrendLabs study The Fake News Machine for more about the costs associated with the spread of disinformation; EEAS (2023). 1st EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats, accessed 25 March 2023.

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418 Warsaw research workshop 9 February 2023.

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429 Warsaw research workshop 9 February 2023.

430 GLOBSEC (2022). GLOBSEC Trends 2022: CEE amid the war in Ukraine, accessed 11 April 2023.

431 European Digital Media Observatory (2022). Ukrainian refugees and disinformation: situation in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania, accessed 11 April 2023.

432 GLOBSEC (2022). New report shows that the V4 population supports Ukrainian refugees with some reservations, accessed 22 March 2023. There has been debate about methodological approaches to polling conducted by GLOBSEC and the Slovak Academy of Science, such as the different scales given to participants to respond to questions (1–5 or 1–10) and how responses were collected (online and in-person), even when the question posed is the same. See GLOBSEC (2002). New poll: Slovaks want Ukraine to win the war, Not Russia, accessed 22 March 2023.