by Sabrina Rodriguez | Nov 1, 2022 | All, Children, Columbia, Covid-19, Ecuador, Egypt, Human Rights, Russia, Ukraine, United Nations, Women
Introduction The right to protest is under threat across all regions of the world and repression has grown increasingly common. This year, we have seen various examples of this repression in Russia, Iran, Ecuador, and Chad. However, this problem has always been...
by Meredith Gusky | Oct 3, 2022 | All, Russia, Ukraine
On March 16, 2022 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Russia to immediately suspend military operations in Ukraine. This order raises two very important questions for international law and policy: First, what authority does the ICJ have in ordering a...
by Eric Cunningham | May 2, 2022 | All, Russia
On February 21, 2022, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that the Russian Federation would recognize the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, two Russia-backed separatist regions of Ukraine, as independent sovereign states. On February...
by Meredith Gusky | May 2, 2022 | All, Russia
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Putin has struggled to keep his own people from joining the rest of the world in protesting the war. Following demonstrations, Putin heightened censorship of news media and journalists in Russia. Stifling dissent is a way for Putin to...
by Daniel Wilken | Apr 20, 2022 | All, Democracy, FIFA, Qatar, Russia, Sports
Introduction FIFA, or the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, is the lawmaking body for world soccer. It is responsible for not only creating the laws of the game on the field, dictating what qualifies as a handball or when using the newly designed...
by Jonathan Haskin | Apr 13, 2022 | All, Climate Change, Russia, Ukraine, Uncategorized
On March 1st, just five days after Russia’s surprise invasion of Ukraine, Switzerland-based energy company Nord Stream 2 AG filed for bankruptcy. The company’s future had already been imperiled the previous week by the German government’s decision to withdraw...
