As Sudan’s popular revolt surged from late 2018, threatening to topple President Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s government, he received a memo urging the government to run a social media campaign… Read more »
“Ukraine has always aspired to be free”, Voltaire wrote back in the eighteenth-century. He knew that most of his French readers could barely find this “unknown land” on a map,… Read more »
If Vladimir Putin loses power, as a result of the war in Ukraine, Russia’s future looks hopeful, argues Anders Åslund, a senior fellow at the Stockholm Free World Forum and author… Read more »
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 »
Democratic resilience is increasingly invoked by policymakers as an aspect of foreign and security strategies, and as an aim of internally strengthening democratic practices, amid changing threat environments, researchers suggest…. Read more »
Vladimir Putin’s inner circle has been “extremely upset and shocked at the turn of events” in Ukraine, according to a leading analyst. “I mean Putin was there essentially as the… Read more »
For decades, Russian oligarchs have moved billions of dollars of ill-gotten money abroad – to make it extremely hard to trace. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, countries around the world… 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 Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project has uncovered over $17.5 billion in assets tied to Russia’s ruling oligarchs. The group used its Russian Asset Tracker to look for land,… Read more »
It is no accident that Americans are united in their support for Ukraine, according to historian Anne Applebaum (right). A large, bipartisan majority, for example, back the U.S. decision to… Read more »