The aim of this policy brief is to examine how countries in the Black Sea Region (BSR) should deal  with the new challenge posed by Russia’s use of various information-related instruments and how the situation in the information sphere in the area should be dealt with by regional actors and other players with stakes in this region. This material presents the most important findings and conclusions presented in more detail in the FLANKS Working Paper  Information Warfare and Information Operations  in the Black Sea Area  prepared jointly by members of the FLANKS project.