Georgia’s Decisive Vote Rests on New Electoral System
By Ketevan Chachava, for CEPA
Georgia approaches critical parliamentary elections that will decide its democratic evolution.
Georgia’s previous elections have been plagued by allegations of fraud, manipulation, and widespread...
Putin Rids Russia of a Troublesome Priest
The Kremlin dishes out a lesson in clerical obedience to a churchman with heterodox views on Ukraine.
By Elisabeth Braw, for CEPA
Three short years ago, Metropolitan Hilarion was...
Onward Putin Soldiers
By Julia Davis, for CEPA
The Kremlin’s mouthpieces once denied they were the regime’s playthings. No longer.
In the years preceding September’s US revelatory indictments against RT...
A New England Yankee Tells America’s Story
By Mitzi Perdue, for CEPA
Disappointed by the government’s lack of action, a former US Senator has taken up the information struggle through a YouTube channel...
Trofimov vs. Trofimova: No Contest
By Edward Lucas, for CEPA
Anastasia Trofimova, a Russian-Canadian filmmaker, says she did not witness any war crimes during the seven months she spent embedded with...
Europe Struggles to Enforce New Free Speech Rules
The Digital Services Act represents the democratic world’s most ambitious effort to regulate social media. It's off to a slow start.
By Bill Echikson, for CEPA
The...
If Ukraine’s Not a Proper Country, Nor Is Russia
By Kseniya Kirillova, for CEPA
Russian efforts to question Ukrainian statehood have not developed as intended.
Pro-Kremlin analysts have devised a new argument in their campaign to...
Russia’s Black Sea Defeats Get Flushed Down Vladimir Putin’s Memory Hole
By Peter Dickinson, UkraineAlert
There was much pomp and pageantry on display recently in former Russian imperial capital Saint Petersburg as Vladimir Putin presided over...
Putin’s Propagandists Feast on Orbán’s Words
By Dorka Takácsy, for CEPA
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s performative diplomacy is aiding the Kremlin’s anti-Western propaganda.
Orbán managed to do two favors for Moscow in...
Homegrown Terrorism: Putin’s Dirty Secret
By Kseniya Kirillova, for CEPA
Some Russian propagandists have broken with the Kremlin narrative by questioning if NATO and Ukraine are behind an upsurge in terrorist...