May 7, 2018 | James Liska
A former campaign manager for Donald Trump, lobbyist Paul Manafort and colleague Richard Gates are charged with a bevy of federal crimes stemming from political work on behalf of Viktor Yanukovich, the disgraced former leader of Ukraine, and to a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine. The root cause of the indictment – violations of the United States’ lobbying code – is impactful to the lobbying profession as a whole. To understand this, it’s important to analyze the landscape of the lobbying profession in both Russia and the United States.

May 3, 2018 | Garret Mitchell
Waste management may be far down the list of concerns among citizens of a nation struggling with income inequality and basic infrastructure safety, but as protests in Volokolamsk demanding closure of the city’s overflowing Yadrovo landfill have shown, proper garbage disposal represents a burgeoning social challenge.

April 28, 2018 | Karina Panyan
Social media not only plays a significant role in non-state actor evolution towards a network of global proportions, but also influences the methods by which extremist groups recruit and radicalize in the first place. Social media is a crucial cornerstone of extremist recruitment in the modern era, but it can also advance the methods by which the international community responds to these groups and individuals.

April 27, 2018 | Aaron Korenewsky
Alternatively labeled Generation P, Generation Putin, the “Putin Generation,” “Putin’s Children,” and even “Puteens,” Russia’s first post-Soviet generation has generated quite the flurry of Western media coverage, particularly in the run-up to the 2018 presidential election.

April 23, 2018 | Karin Thomas
After IS collapsed, fighters and their families began returning home. The resulting threat posed by potentially radicalized returning children as well as avenues to mitigate that threat have largely been ignored by experts: effective rehabilitation programs must be offered to all returning children and must be tailored to individual needs and to the unique makeup of the North Caucasus region

April 18, 2018│Alexis Corn
As excitement over cryptocurrencies builds around the world, countries and their leaders have begun seeking ways to take advantage of this financial technology, or “fintech,” industry. The Russian Federation is no exception.

February 16, 2018 | Katherine Baughman
With the exception of coal exports, the policies that have received the most exposure and continuing popularity in the U.S. political sphere are limited in their ability to assist Ukraine. However, support to less publicized domestic initiatives already underway could bolster energy security far more effectively.