by Aaron Gillespie | Feb 14, 2018 | Columbia University
The war of words between Fidesz Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Hungarian-American billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros continues to take on certain attributes of literal war as Orbán and his party’s most recent round of anti-immigrant...
by Andrey Prigov | Feb 14, 2018 | Columbia University
As Ukraine waits to recover from the social unrest sparked by 2014’s Maidan Revolution and pro-Russian unrest in the Donbas region, it has become painfully evident that eradicating the corrupt business-as-usual mentality within the nation’s politics will be much more...
by Victor Brechenmacher | Nov 26, 2017 | Brown University
On Saturday, Russian president Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill forcing all foreign-funded media in Russia to register as ‘foreign agents.’ The move echoes a 2012 Russian law asking the same of any domestic NGO receiving external funding. In June,...
by Victoria Potts | Nov 18, 2017 | University of Memphis
The journalists of Bulgaria regularly experience pressure from politicians to censor their questions and their stories. High-ranking officials openly threaten journalists’ jobs to ensure their cooperation. Despite these troublesome occurrences, the state of...
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...
