Category: Eurasia

‘Ukraine’s D-Day’? Victory would showcase democratic model vs. illiberal competitors

     

Ukraine needs a measured lustration policy to strengthen security and rebuild its democracy, say analysts Geoff Dancy, Kathryn Sikkink, Mykhailo Soldatenko, and Patrick Vinck.  As it has been practiced in… Read more »

Ukraine’s resilience denies Russia’s ‘delusional revanchism’

     

Leaders of the world’s richest democracies agreed on Friday to stiffen sanctions against Russia, while a draft communique to be issued after their talks in the Japanese city of Hiroshima… Read more »

South Africa’s ‘nonsensical nonalignment’

     

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has forgotten that the outside world’s principled rejection of neutrality sustained the struggle against apartheid, Johannesburg-based political analyst Eusebius McKaiser writes for Foreign Policy. Earlier… Read more »

Why Putin’s repression is worse than under the Soviets

     

With Moscow’s barbaric aggression against Ukraine, Russia has experienced a quick return to almost Stalinist-era levels of repression, says former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky. New laws have made it impossible… Read more »