No time for doubt

Peace and ceasefire negotiations that the West is more and more intensively trying to force on Ukraine, may have negative consequences for Central Europe.

Georgia’s Decisive Vote Rests on New Electoral System

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 public…

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 still the Russian Orthodox Church’s second-in-command, in charge of relations with the rest of the world.

Onward Putin Soldiers

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 employees, the prominent Russian propagandist…

A New England Yankee Tells America’s Story

Disappointed by the government’s lack of action, a former US Senator has taken up the information struggle through a YouTube channel for ordinary Russians. What is the world’s most effective weapon?

Trofimov vs. Trofimova: No Contest

Anastasia Trofimova, a Russian-Canadian filmmaker, says she did not witness any war crimes during the seven months she spent embedded with a Russian army battalion in eastern Ukraine.

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.

If Ukraine’s Not a Proper Country, Nor Is Russia

Russian efforts to question Ukrainian statehood have not developed as intended. Pro-Kremlin analysts have devised a new argument in their campaign to prove that Ukraine is not a real country.

Russia’s Black Sea Defeats Get Flushed Down Vladimir Putin’s Memory Hole

There was much pomp and pageantry on display recently in former Russian imperial capital Saint Petersburg as Vladimir Putin presided over the country’s annual Navy Day festivities.

Putin’s Propagandists Feast on Orbán’s Words

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s performative diplomacy is aiding the Kremlin’s anti-Western propaganda.