Ukrainian officials and civil society leaders say no effective elections can be held amid a Russian invasion that now occupies about 18 percent of Ukraine’s territory and has uprooted at least 11 million… Read more »
The West is now engaged in a generational struggle against big, ruthless, and wealthy authoritarian regimes, notes Mick Ryan, a military strategist and an Adjunct Fellow at the Center for… Read more »
At least 4,000 civilians are held in Russia and at least as many scattered around the occupied territories, according to Vladimir Osechkin, an exiled Russian human rights activist who talks… Read more »
As rattled as they may have been by an armed insurrection in a nuclear-weapons state, Russia’s friends and business partners are unlikely to abandon Vladimir Putin, according to diplomats and… Read more »
Ukraine needs a measured lustration policy to strengthen security and rebuild its democracy, say analysts Geoff Dancy, Kathryn Sikkink, Mykhailo Soldatenko, and Patrick Vinck. As it has been practiced in… Read more »
History tells us war is a question of will, @general_ben tells @FukuyamaFrancis @americanpurpose. One reason why #Ukraine will defeat #Russia in the coming months & threaten their position in #Crimea…. Read more »
Leaders of the world’s richest democracies agreed on Friday to stiffen sanctions against Russia, while a draft communique to be issued after their talks in the Japanese city of Hiroshima… Read more »
Today, for only the fourth time since its foundation in 1949, the heads of state of the Council of Europe (CoE) will come together in Reykjavik, Iceland, note Amnesty International’s… Read more »
Although the coming Ukrainian offensive will do much to set expectations for the future trajectory of this war, the real challenge is thinking through what comes after, according to Michael… Read more »
The future of democracy worldwide depends in part on whether the Ukrainian army can break the current stalemate and achieve complete victory, two leading analysts assert in a new Atlantic… Read more »