by Jonathan Eckel | Mar 10, 2019 | Suffolk University
Putin’s reign of power in Russia has been augmented, in part, by his ever-increasing vice grip on independent media outlets and oppositional voices. Currently, Russia ranks 148th out of 180 countries in terms of its media freedom and is only ahead of completely...
by Joseph Glandorf | Mar 24, 2018 | Ohio State University
On March 3, police in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, forcibly dismantled a camp of anticorruption protesters outside the Ukrainian Parliament, resulting in a violent clash, about 20 injuries, and over 100 detainments. It was the latest in a long string of crises for a...
by JORDAN MICHAEL NAKDIMON | Mar 14, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
On March 4th, 2018, the Russian government, led by President Vladimir Putin, demonstrated once again what almost the entire world already knows: Russia is currently a highly aggressive, largely undemocratic country. In the English city of Malisbury, on a peaceful...
by Artur Avkhadiev | Nov 17, 2017 | Brown University
On October 11, I joined a “Citywide conversation” with the Providence mayor Jorge O. Elorza. As part of the effort to remain in touch with Providence residents, the city council has organized these quarterly meetings in different wards for the last few...
