In a @WSJ op-ed, @cjcmichel, Director of the Combating Kleptocracy Program at the Human Rights Foundation, argues that Russia’s influence across the former Soviet space has collapsed – as have its pretensions about being the leading regional power.

Thanks to Russia’s disastrous war in Ukraine, the Kremlin has watched its regional standing implode, and opened the door for all kinds of new opportunities for democracies.

Read the full op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.