The Russian leader declared war on his country’s independent journalists. But Russian media outsmarted him by taking their operations overseas. They are now reaching more people than ever before.
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- Will Russia’s war tip the Kremlin even further toward tyranny while fortifying Ukraine’s democracy? That will depend on Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky as much as on the course of the war itself. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…
- People obsess over where Russia’s democracy went wrong. The truth is it did not fail: Russia’s democratic transition never got off the starting blocks. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…
- Why did Russia invade Ukraine? And why are Russian forces fighting so poorly? The internal logic of its personalist dictatorship is to blame. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…
- Five years of repressive Taliban rule has not extinguished Afghans’ determination to shape a freer future.

