Ukraine ‘will be decisive’ for Western alliance
Kaja Kallas remembers the stories of when her mother, Kristi, then a baby, was deported to Siberia in a cattle car with her own mother & grandmother so it is… Read more »
Category: Eurasia
Russia’s coming post-Putin power struggle
Succession is sometimes said to be the Achilles’ heel of autocracies, especially personalist ones, notes Syracuse University professor Brian D. Taylor, the author of The Code of Putinism. And a nontrivial… Read more »
Treating Russia as ‘a collective Putin will be a strategic blunder’
Is Russia on the road to dictatorship? The immense pressures generated by the war and Western sanctions could eventually bring about domestic political change in Russia, but the conceivable scenarios… Read more »
Resilient Ukraine – one of the ‘opening salvos in seismic struggle of our time’
“Ukrainian democracy continues” as Russia is failing to achieve nearly all of its war objectives in Ukraine, a senior White House official said on Sunday. “In our view, Russia has already… Read more »
Kremlin critic Kara-Murza faces 10 year sentence on war ‘false info’ charges
Jailed Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza could face an additional 10 years in prison on newly unveiled charges of spreading “false” information about the Russian military, The Moscow Times reports. Kara-Murza,… Read more »
Ukraine war a ‘turning point in history’: Underscores democratic crisis – and dictator’s advantage?
European Council President Charles Michel met Wednesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv — which he called the “heart of a free and democratic Europe” — and pledged to… Read more »
A new transition paradigm? From democratic decline to authoritarian aggression
Western democracies are demonstrating fresh resolve in defending Ukraine, but still need to demonstrate sufficient resilience by addressing domestic backsliding, according to a new Freedom House report. While some democratic… Read more »
Why Ukraine is key to saving liberal democracy
What has happened in Ukraine provides “a valuable lesson” for the world’s democracies, argues Francis Fukuyama, the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies… Read more »
Kara-Murza demonstrates ‘you cannot equate Russia to its regime’
Evgenia Kara-Murza (above) from Daniel Lippman on Vimeo. The massive economic sanctions brought against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine have not only punished Russian elites — they have also prompted… Read more »
Putin nemesis reveals the ‘real money’ funding Kremlin’s war
A trillion dollars: That’s how much money famed investor Bill Browder believes Vladimir Putin and Russian oligarchs have stolen from the Russian people since the fall of the Soviet Union,… Read more »