by Andrew Korn | Mar 25, 2021 | Georgia State University
A headstrong statesman and former KDB operative, Vladimir Putin continues to show unwavering strength in the face of recent political protest in the Russian Federation. Within the first month of 2021, Liberal Opposition Party leader Alexei Navalny was arrested and...
by John Miller | Dec 20, 2020 | James Madison University
Since the first and only legitimate election in 1994, dictator Alexander Lukashenko has ruled Belarus with an iron grip. Historically apathetic to politics, Belarusians responded to the fraudulent 2020 re-election of Lukashenko with widespread protests in an...
by Antonina Orlanova | Dec 14, 2020 | Georgia State University
Alexei Navalny is a name not dared to be spoken by sitting president, Vladimir Putin. The opposing force to Putin’s United Party proved to be a force despite many, some partially successful, attempts to remove him from the public’s radar. But, with the continuing...
by Andrey Chun Sarmiento | Dec 14, 2020 | James Madison University
Can Vladimir Putin revolutionize the way autocrats censor the internet? It is no secret that the press and journalists have experienced ever-increasing challenges in Russia since President Vladimir Putin took power in 1999. Reporters Sans Frontière ranked...
by Sebastian Luu | Dec 11, 2020 | Suffolk University
USCGC Polar Sea at Iceberg B-15A on Jan. 29, 2001 (wikimedia; NSF/Josh Landis )USCGC Polar Star backs and rams through dense ice off the Antarctic coast, Jan. 15, 2017. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer David Mosley)USCGC is the abbreviation for United...
