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 »
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 »
In #DialoguesOnWar (above), Myroslav Marynovych, Vice Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, and Serhii Plokhii, Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, address the critical issues arising from the Ukraine… Read more »
For anybody trying to keep track of the war this is an extraordinarily useful resource from Bellingcat. Follow the Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map https://t.co/M5IaHtWjgQ — Lawrence Freedman (@LawDavF) March 6, 2022… Read more »
It is up to the West’s democracies to stop another Grozny or Aleppo in Kiev, a leading Ukrainian activist said today. “People in Kyiv are ready to sacrifice their lives,”… Read more »
In response [to the authoritarian resurgence], we’ve seen an unprecedented number of mass pro-democratic social movements rising up to resist the autocratic tide, says Erica Chenoweth. Many of these—in places… Read more »
History has accelerated; the impossible has become possible. Shifts that no one imagined two weeks ago are unfolding with incredible speed, notes Anne Applebaum, the author of Twilight of Democracy: The… Read more »
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, surrounded by several top officials, addressed the country Friday night local time from the doorstep of the presidential administration in central Kyiv to show he and… Read more »
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO membership was often seen as a path toward EU integration among the new democracies of central and eastern Europe. But since NATO… Read more »