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Eastern Europe (Russia) – March 2, 2026

Five years into Russia’s war in Ukraine, many narratives still miss the bigger picture. In a new op-ed, Casey Michel, director of the Combating Kleptocracy program at the Human Rights Foundation, argues it’s time to reassess what the war has revealed about Moscow’s eroding power.

Read the full op-ed.

We've overestimated Russia for too long

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