sitting here on my left ambassador, he is currently a visiting fellow at the center for european policy analysise in washington formally in lithuanian diplomat holding various postings including serving as ambassador of lithuania to the uk, russia and sweden and very importantly for today's discussion ambassador at large for hybrid threats. he has written on brush and or policy and security policy, hybrid threats, on security and defense in the baltic and the nordic states very extensively. i will hand it over to him to discuss some of those issues first. thank you in joining me welcoming him. [applause] feedback thank you. it is a pleasure for me to be here among you. i tried to see and which way i should start. and a lot of experience in the uk and london did you are supposed to start with a joke. i know whether this is a joke after listening to the last. i am just wondering if there is still hope or democracy. [laughter] not a very successful joke. i think last session with what is happening now definitely would make me right with my notes. we reemerge after the end of the cold war. u.s., eve

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