This is (another) essential from Anne Applebaum : Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

The European Union has approved using the interest from seized Russian assets to help arm Ukraine and fund the country’s reconstruction, and at least one NATO member state is all in.
politi.co/4b8EEJf via POLITICO

How Russia, China and other dictatorships around the world have coalesced to promote autocracy - and how some Americans and Europeans help them
Excerpt from my forthcoming book, in The Atlantic
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

A pain in the assets for Russia politi.co/4b8EEJf przez POLITICO

These people are children. “I’m so angry at the world leader who has been the most stalwart with Israel that I’m willing to let a maniac light the country on fire” is a temper tantrum not the action of an adult who has to make a considered decision between imperfect options .

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – notorious Holocaust denier and anti-Semite – was honored today as a “special guest” of Hungary’s National University of Public Service, a state institution training Hungary’s future leaders… (1/2)

Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world. Anne Applebaum on how democracy is losing the propaganda war: theatln.tc/gs5mCyiU theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Every EU country has seen its exports to Central Asia boom since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Here is Italy, where exports to Kyrgyzstan are up 1000%. Once you add this up across all EU countries and all of Central Asia, the numbers are big and keep Russia's war economy going...

Notable in all of the descriptions of Netanayahu's decision making at the moment is his focus on *himself* and his political survival. Not civilians, not even Israel.
nytimes.com/2024/05/08/wor…

The murder rate is down 19% in 2024 thus far, per data collected directly from 236 cities across the US.

(Some major cities — like San Francisco, Baltimore, and Philidelphia — have seen much larger decreases.)

📷 In our video appeal to free dissident rap artist توماج صالحی🌋, sentenced to death for using his art for justice & freedom in Iran Golshifteh Farahani, @nazaninboniadi, @marji_satrapi, & #ToomajSalehi ’s cousin Shabnam Khosravi, call for solidarity by global artists to save his…

russia has a special methodology for kidnapping children from Ukraine. According to Falcon Flight organization, children are told that their parents have abandoned them, russians split them up with friends every two months and say that they will never return home.
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Congratulations to Vladimir Kara-Murza for winning the 2024 The Pulitzer Prizes on Commentary for his extraordinary columns from prison in Vladimir Putin's Russia. You can read his columns here: washingtonpost.com/people/vladimi…

Proud to see my unfairly imprisoned friend Vladimir Kara-Murza , thrown into #russian gulag by #putin regime being awarded #PulitzerPrize for his courage and writting. Let us all join forces to set him free ! @hrf CANVAS WORLD LIBERTY CONGRESS Bill Browder Thor Halvorssen The Washington Post