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 »
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 »
Liberal democracy is back to where it was in 1989, says the most recent report from the Varieties of Democracy Institute (V–Dem) – in other words, the massive gains in… Read more »
China’s officials, media, and proponents have campaigned to capitalize on the success of zero-COVID to characterize the Communist government as a responsible great power that cares for its people and… Read more »
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 »
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 »
An independent expert mission set up within the OSCE Moscow Mechanism today released its report documenting human rights violations, international humanitarian law (IHL) violations, and possible war crimes committed by… Read more »
Marvel at the heroism and resilience of Ukraine. In the first days of war, the armored might of Vladimir Putin shriveled before the courage of the nation he had attacked,… Read more »
Russian police have arrested the leading opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza on unknown charges and sentenced him to 15 days in jail after he called the government a “regime of murderers.”… Read more »
The war in Ukraine has provided a new impetus for closer collaboration among most democracies. Even if there is a ceasefire and peace settlement, Russian decline has accelerated, the Atlantic… Read more »