Publications
12 publications
Nord Stream 2—Entrenching Putin’s Economic and Political Corruption
Nord Stream 2—Entrenching Putin’s Economic and Political Corruption The traumatic exit of the US military from Kabul has removed covers from an elephant in the room…
Monaco’s Minister of Justice implicated by Kremlin’s oligarch
The case of Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev is a story of impunity both in Russia and in the West. This oligarch, who was connected with the Kremlin and…
Is Putin’s Kremlin subverting Israeli democracy? A Russia expert thinks so
A devastating, complacency-shattering interview with Ilya Zaslavskiy, one of the world's leading experts on Moscow's overt and covert designs on the West. This article originally appeared in The…
Justice Ginsburg, don’t accept a prize backed by Putin’s oligarchs
Whatever Natalie Portman’s own reasons were for turning down the so-called “Jewish Nobel” awarded by the Genesis Prize Foundation, she did the right thing. The Genesis Foundation now…
Corruption Pipeline: The Threat of Nord Stream 2 to EU Security and Democracy
This paper is a continuation of publications on the Kremlin’s subversive activity in Europe prepared by Free Russia Foundation. The first paper, The Kremlin’s Gas Games in Europe,…
How Non-State Actors Export Kleptocratic Norms to the West
When the Soviet empire collapsed in 1991, it was widely believed that Western-style democracy and liberal capitalism based on free elections, separation of powers and the rule of…
Conclusions from exposing security threats of Nord Stream-2 and post-Soviet corruption in the West
As part of my work for Free Russia Foundation, I am carrying out research on two projects. The first one is devoted to influencing that Gazprom and its…
Trump’s Pledge To Enforce the Global Magnitsky Act—A Skeptical View
Earlier this month the White House sent a letter to Congress pledging a commitment to the “robust and thorough enforcement” of the 2016 Global Magnitsky Act (GMA). The GMA, which grew…
The Kremlin’s Gas Games in Europe: Implications for Policy Makers
Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu’s Eurasia Center and the Free Russia Foundation presents "The Kremlin’s Gas Games in Europe: Implications for Policy Makers," a new brief by our expert…
Kislyak’s spider web of networks of oligarchs and Putin’s apologists in the U.S.
U.S. media has recently thrown a lot of light on subversion operations of Russian officials in the US. But even today, after waves of revelations of Moscow’s state-led…
The Tsar and His Business Serfs
Free Russia Foundation and the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies are happy to present our new joint report “The Tsar and His Business Serfs. Russian Oligarchs and SMEs…
Putin’s values pose old and new existential threats to the West
Vladimir Putin is coming to the General Assembly (GA) of the United Nations this month. This visit has sparked a discussion about his motives and intentions among Russian-speaking…