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How Zelenskiy Beat Ukraine's Establishment

The landslide victory of comedian and TV producer Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Sunday’s run-off presidential election in Ukraine poses a problem both...

Leonid Bershidsky For Bloomberg

Stalin played a positive role in Russia’s history; he was a respected historical figure, a majority of Russians polled by the independent...

The Russian authorities have embarked on unprecedented measures to control internet content. Under what has become known as the sovereign internet...

With the second round of the Ukrainian presidential election just a week away, pollsters are predicting that incumbent President Petro Poroshenko...

For some time now I have been pushing the notion that Vladimir Putin’s Russia is best understood as an ‘adhocracy’, which I define in my ECFR...

It would be easy to be alarmed. Right after General Curtis Scaparotti, Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe, warned that the greatest risk was...

The era of al-Bashir’s rule in Sudan began early in the morning of June 30, 1989. On that morning the country awoke under a new regime: the...