This book uniquely combines the authors personal experiences deep cultural and professional experience of living and working in Russia and the former USSR and interest and experience with language and computational analysis to shed light on a highly contemporary question what is motivating conflict and unrest in Russia and its surrounding countries How does Russian government suppression of information manifest in practice today and how does it fit into the historical cultural pattern for Russia The authors take a computational look at social and traditional media in the original languages from Russia Ukraine Lithuania Latvia Estonia Poland and the Englishspeaking world to glean insights and separate fact from fiction.This book helps readers interested in Eastern Europe to take the temperature of the region today but it is also of interest to readers in the policy and analysis community because it offers a template an analytical howto guide which aims to follow in the footsteps of CIA author Richards Heuers Psychology of Intelligence Analysis to show how stateoftheart computational analysis techniques could be applied to similar problems in other topic areas with the human analyst and computational techniques each working together to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts.