Mark Kramer

Prisoner Exchanges, Putin-Style: From Cold War-Era Spy Swaps to the Kidnapping and Criminality of Today

Image credit/license The East-West prisoner exchange that was carried out last week—with eight Russian citizens transferred from Western countries to Russia and sixteen individuals released from Russia to Germany and…

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Prigozhin’s Fate in Putin’s Russia: The Political Roles of Aircraft

Image credit/license In Russia, politicians who run afoul of President Vladimir Putin are at risk of being killed by poison, defenestration, or gunshot, or of being sentenced to harsh prison…

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Perestroika and New Thinking: A Retrospective

August 19, 2021

(Demokratizatsiya) Excerpt: More than three and a half decades have passed since the start of the process of change in the Soviet Union known throughout the world as perestroika. The…

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