I asked my brother, Nathaniel, how he was getting acclimated to his new school. “It’s a ghost-town, Stephanie,” he replied, “everybody left.” My brother was referring to the American embassy kids who had left.
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This week, Skidmore welcomed distinguished Russian democratic oppositionist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who believes the 2020s will bring a long awaited democratic change to Russia’s politics, refuting the myth that Russian society is not fit for democratic rule.
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On March 26, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, and hundreds of his supporters were arrested and jailed following protests across the country.
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Dezinformatsiya and the War on Truth
The new administration has eroded the notion of a representative government and democracy. Trump has not only declared a war on media, but also truth.
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In late May 2015, my father and I traveled to the provincial town of Ustyuzhna, Russia to deliver the gravestone of a deceased relative.
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