The war in Ukraine is prompting considerable speculation about the onset of a new Cold War. The cold-war strategy of “containment” is being studied for the current age. Truman’s America… Read more »
Disturbing – UN documented at least 37 forced disappearances or arbitrary detentions of Ukrainian officials, journalists & civil society activists, incl 15 disappeared in or around Kyiv, Kherson, Luhansk &… Read more »
It was a story that shocked the world. In August 2020, Russia’s opposition leader Alexei Navalny was taken ill during a flight to Moscow. He was suspected of being poisoned… Read more »
The United States plans to sanction approximately 400 Russian individuals and entities, including more than 300 legislators from the Duma, the Russian parliament’s lower house, a senior Biden administration official… Read more »
The time has come to openly regard the Republic of Serbia for what it is: A stalwart Russian and Chinese ally run by a semi-authoritarian government that proactively pursues ideologically… Read more »
The @NDI‘s global family mourns the loss of democracy icon Madeleine K. Albright/@madeleine. Thank you, Madame Secretary/Madame Chair, for your leadership & commitment to democracy & human dignity you embodied… Read more »
A little more than a decade after the Arab Spring swept away many autocratic regimes in the Middle East and plunged others into chaos, a new authoritarian order is settling… Read more »
There are three Ukraine scenarios which currently seem most likely, argues FT analyst Gideon Rachman: The first — which is both the most tragic and the most probable — is… Read more »
In his infamous Transylvania speech announcing Hungary in 2014 as an “illiberal state,” Viktor Orban also called Russia—along with China, Singapore, India, and Turkey—a model for Hungarian society. But the… Read more »
Holding a referendum on compromises with Russia in war-torn Ukraine would be next to impossible without a ceasefire, so Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will have to get Russian President Vladimir Putin on… Read more »