From Paul DeGroot at the London School of Economics, “Orthodoxy’s Missed Opportunity: Denying Putin Victory.” Excerpt: Smart despots like Vladimir Putin know that co-opting a culture’s fundamental values delivers the most devoted minions of all....
The International Criminal Court has issued a warrant for Vladimir Putin’s arrest. This is a very big deal. As Prof. Chris Snow trenchantly writes at Medium: “Ukraine is a crime scene” Karim Khan ICC Chief prosecutor Two arrest warrants for alleged war crimes...
The The Washington Post reports on a trainspotter blogger driven from Russia by his posts about Putin’s armored ghost train. Excerpt: RIGA, Latvia — For Mikhail Korotkov, a lifelong “trainspotter,” one unusual train on Russia’s railways became an...
Per Michael McFaul in the Washington Post: Putin’s societal support is soft and declining. Public opinion polls show he still enjoys popular support. But these polls in Russia have high refusal rates, which should not be surprising in a country where you can go to...
Photo by brett jordan under CC license attribution 2.0, courtesy of Wikipedia. Ken Camp, from The Baptist Paper (originating in Baptist Standard) In some cities, 70 percent of buildings have been seriously damaged, and the infrastructure has been destroyed, he noted....
