Russia's War Against Ukraine
Washington Post: In Mr. Putin’s Russia, the lights of liberty are flickering
POLITICAL scientist Lilia Shevtsova of the Carnegie Moscow Center made an important observation recently about the impact of President Vladimir Putin’s seizure of Crimea and destabilization of Ukraine. “In suffocating Ukraine,” she said, “Putin is really suffocating Russia.” As Mr. Putin works to undermine Ukraine, he also is smothering what remains of the independent Internet-based news media and social media amid signs that discredited old Soviet tactics such as travel restrictions are coming back.