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Timothy Snider: How to think about war in Ukraine

By Timothy Snider, for Thinking about... I keep being asked whether Russia will invade Ukraine again.  I don't know.  The last time Russia attacked...

Moscow’s Memory Wars: Putin seeks to whitewash Russia’s Stalinist past

By Gina S. Lentine, for UkraineAlert On December 28, 2021, Russia’s Supreme Court ruled to liquidate Memorial International on charges of “repeated violations of the foreign agents...

Ben Dubow: The Colored Steppe

By Ben Dubow, for CEPA Whatever caused the uprising in Kazakhstan, its brutal Russian-backed suppression again shows Vladimir Putin has a free hand to act...

Kseniya Kirillova: Russia Cranks Up the Propaganda Volume

By Kseniya Kirillova, for CEPA Russian state representatives, the Kremlin’s foreign policy ideologist, and media loyalists are becoming increasingly menacing. The first round of the US-Russia...

Putin’s Nasty Soviet Nostalgia

By Olga Lautman, for CEPA Vladimir Putin’s state is granting itself ever-greater freedom both abroad and at home; losers include the Russian people. There are few...

‘Mission impossible?’: tracking political misinformation and disinformation on TikTok

By Nuurrianti Jalli, for The Conversation TikTok is one of the top five social media platforms in the world this year. In Southeast Asia last year, 198 million people,...

What will 2022 bring in the way of misinformation on social media? 3 experts...

By Anjana Susarla, Dam Hee Kim, Ethan Zuckerman, for The Conversation At the end of 2020, it seemed hard to imagine a worse year for...

Peter Dickinson: Debunking the myth of a divided Ukraine

By Peter Dickinson, for UkraineAlert In recent months, Ukraine has found itself back in the global spotlight amid a fresh bout of Kremlin saber-rattling that has...

Stopping the Countdown to Russian Invasion

By Kurt Volker, for CEPA Russia’s unacceptable demands to the United States and NATO make a new invasion into Ukraine more likely. It is time...

Memo to the international media: Putin has already invaded Ukraine

By Peter Dickinson, for UkraineAlert One of the more depressing features of the latest Russian military build-up on the Ukrainian border has been the proliferation...