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Last week Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin stated that he expects an expanded partnership between Ukraine and NATO will lead Ukraine to a membership in the Alliance following a path similar to that of Montenegro. With regard to the United States, for now President Trump’...

Freedom House deals honestly with the people, and a country that lives at peace with its neighbors. The Ukraine factor The falsification of history that began during the early years of Putin's leadership has been intensified in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine and seizure o...

…tates to “Certainly within the next four to five years [Russia] will have the ability to conduct operations in eastern Ukraine and pressure the Baltics and pressure Georgia and do other things, without having to do a full mobilization.” —U.S. Lieutenant General Ben Hodges 3....

…e vanguard in embracing e-government and other innovations associated with a modern open society. Since the invasion of Ukraine and the Russian military's menacing gestures along its border, Estonia has ramped up defense spending and launched war games to increase preparedness. I...

…leged bugging Merkel’s phone resulted in badly fraying US relations with Germany in the midst of developing troubles in Ukraine. As it later turned, according to the investigation of the German federal prosecutor concluded in 2015, there was no evidence found in this document, o...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians in Ukraine, the Maidan uprising of 2013-14, forced him to flee to Russia after a bloody crackdown failed to disperse the demonstrators. Among other things, the episode shattered the old political es...

…-has-friends-on-europes-far-right-and-left-but-mostly-right/. 11. Amber Phillips, “Paul Manafort’s Complicated Ties to Ukraine, Explained,” Washington Post, August 19, 2016, https://www.washing- tonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/19/paul-manaforts-complicated-ties-to-ukraine-ex...

…o a repressive or illiberal status quo. Civil society was the linchpin in the successful popular revolutions in Serbia, Ukraine, and Georgia. In fact, civil society organizations frequently pose a greater threat to autocracy than do traditional opposition par- ties, which have pr...

…Defends USSR's Pact with Nazi Germany,” Kviv Post, May 10, 2015, httos://www.kyivpost.com/article/con- tent/war-against-ukraine/merkel-listens-as-putin-defends-ussrs-pact-with-nazi-germany-388241.html; “Putin Defends Ribben- trop-Molotov Pact in Press Conference with Merkel,” Mos...

… with states whose democratic goals are under threat from large and aggressive authoritarian powers. A prime example is Ukraine. That country represents the absolute front line in the global struggle for freedom. Building democracy in an inhospitable neighborhood is always diffi...

“Putin's Propaganda Keeps Russians in the Dark about Ukraine and More

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“Russia Continues Its False Narrative as Defender of Oppressed Minorities in Ukraine

some saw opportunity. The Russians could see a free pass on the Ukraine