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European nations and NATO are setting up centres to identify news bolstering cyber defences and tracking use of social media which target Russian speaking communities, far right groups, political parties, voters and decision makers.

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Reporting by Andrius Sytas in Vilnius, Gederts Gelzis in Riga, Jan Lopatka and Robert Muller in Prague, Radu Marinas in Sofia, Aleksandar Vasovic in Belgrade, Tatiana Jancarikova in Bratislava, Thomas Escritt in Amsterdam, Jussi Rosendahl in Finland, John Irish in Paris, Christian Lowe in Moscow, Francesco Guarascio and Robin Emmott in Brussels, canada goose coats on sale Krisztina Than and Marton Dunai in Budapest, David Mardiste in Tallinn, canada goose coats and Andrea Shalal and Andreas Rinke in Berlin, editing by Peter Millership.