Announcement May 29, 2024 Infiltrating America: New HRF Report on UAE Political Interference The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) published a new report, “Infiltrating America: How the United Arab Emirates Launched an Unprecedented Political Interference Campaign in the United States,” as part of its Combating Kleptocracy program.
Op-Ed Mar 16, 2024 5 Scenarios for Russia After Putin’s Next Term This weekend, Vladimir Putin will win another election as Russia’s president.
Op-Ed Mar 1, 2024 Russia’s Opposition Needs More Than One Savior The past few weeks have seen an outpouring of both grief and tributes following the death of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny. And rightfully so. Navalny’s death in a Siberian gulag effectively snuffed out what many viewed as the clearest path to Russia’s eventual democratization.
Op-Ed Feb 15, 2024 The American Consulting Firms That Live in Fear of Their Murderous Clients For years, America’s most prominent consulting firms have been competing against one another to service the most heinous regimes on the planet, offering their efforts and advice for tyrants and kleptocrats looking to expand their reach and their repression.
Op-Ed Jan 23, 2024 How the US Became the World’s Refuge for Dirty Money For years, a small company headquartered in South Dakota toiled in one of the most boring niches imaginable.
Announcement Dec 11, 2023 Relaunch of HRF’s Dissidents & Dictators Podcast We are excited to announce the formal relaunch of the Human Rights Foundation’s (HRF) Dissidents and Dictators podcast series.
Op-Ed Nov 14, 2023 Eric Adams’s Entanglements With Turkey Mark a New Level of Kleptocracy In his short time as the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams has built a reputation for playing a starring role in some of the most cartoonish moments that New Yorkers have lived through in recent years.
Op-Ed Oct 27, 2023 Russia’s Slaughter of Indigenous People in Alaska Tells Us Something Important About Ukraine In the racial-reckoning summer of 2020, local leaders in a small American town gathered for a contentious vote on whether to take down a statue that honored a man who was, as one assessment read, “steeped in racial division, violence and injustice.”
Op-Ed Oct 4, 2023 Russia’s Crimean Red Line Has Been Erased In December 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin stood in the middle of the Kremlin’s St. George’s Hall, delivering his annual address to the country’s Federal Assembly.