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…mocracy Studies at Freedom House and a co-editor of Freedom in the World. ON THE COVER Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing, 2016. Lintao Zhang/Getty Images Executive Summary Breaking Down Democracy: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern...

…ter Nineteen The Rise of the NSA Chapter Twenty Back Door In Chapter Twenty-One The Russians Are Coming Chapter Twenty-Two The Chinese Puzzle Chapter Twenty-Three The Pawn in the Game PART FIVE WALKING THE CAT BACK...

…s in war that were obscured from his enemies by their own habits of mind and the limits of their creativity. The great Prussian military strategist Carl Von Clausewitz, who was made prisoner by Napoleon during the massacre at Jena, used his time locked up to begin compiling notes...

…cted" specific FBI actions in the Hillary Clinton email investigation, it nonetheless affects the legality of the Trump-Russia collusion inquiry, code-named Crossfire Hurricane. Crossfire was launched only months before the 2016 election. Its FBI progenitors—the same ones who had...

… of Edward Snowden As he seeks a pardon, the NSA thief has told multiple lies about what he stole and his dealings with Russian intelligence. EDWARD JAY EPSTEIN Of all the lies that Edward Snowden has told since his massive theft of secrets from the National Security Agency and h...

…n advised foreign government that his passport was only approved for his return to the U.S. Even so, when he arrived in Russia any future international travel decisions for him would be up to Russia, not the U.S. So the only government with the means to “trap” him in Russia was t...

…ent. But the main reason his departure would have such import is that he appointed Mueller and continues to oversee the Russia investigation (thanks to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s recusal on the topic). Many have feared that Trump would try to install a crony to replace Rose...

Freedom House through Russian television stations. On a daily basis, they are exposed to propagandistic programs in which the EU is demonized, NATO is treated as an aggressor, the democracies on Russia's borders are presented as enemies, and the annexation of Crimea is hailed as...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians 1. Andrew E. Kramer, “New Russian History: Yes, People Died, but ...," New York Times, August 15, 2007, http://www.nytimes. com/2007/08/15/world/europe/15iht-letter.1.7122937.html. 2. “The Rewritin...

…itish bases on Cyprus will be the next and joint target for all Cypriots if ever they resolve their bilateral quagmire? Russians would not want a resolution either. Why should they? To upset their peculiar position as the major energy supplier of Europe, (particularly) to Germany...

…AT CENTER OF ALIBABA, TENCENT PHENOMENON. BUY. SELL AIA. • TRUMP CHOICES ARE ALL ABOUT KOCH BROS & OIL/GAS NETWORK: BUY RUSSIA... ALSO SAUDI BANKS. • INVESTOR FEEDBACK: INFLATION COMING. BUY BOMBED OUT BANKS HSBC, KB, UNICREDIT? GROWING AGREEMENT ON BOOM IN US. BUY CITI, JPM. CON...

…nt a one-on-one summit between President Obama and President Putin. Not only would this summit be a diplomatic coup for Russia, but also it would add to Putin’s personal credibil- ity in advance of the Olympic Games in Russia. In mid-June, after USS. intelligence reported to Obam...

…and just. Authoritarian efforts to change governments, as opposed to perceptions, may ultimately prove more rewarding. Russias wager on the rise of friendly European populist parties already seems to be paying off. After Britain's vote to withdraw from the EU and the triumph of...

218 Snowden to come to Russia. Putin’s s decision no doubt set in motion the operation to exfiltrate him on Aeroflot, the state-controlled airline. We know that the Russian government acted in advance to facilitate Snowden’s trip from Hong Kong. Without such an intervention, it...

…that was an ally of the US, and which could seize Snowden. The three exceptions were China, North Korea (via China) and Russia. The only one of these three countries, or any other country, that Snowden is known to have dealt with directly during his 33 day stay in Hong Kong, was...