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Articles by Natalia Arno
Challenging Russia's Repression Vladimir Kara-Murza's Journey Challenging Russia's Repression
On a hot summer day in 2019 at The Hague, a city synonymous with the quest for justice, our organization, Free Russia Foundation, was hosting a conference entitled “Navigating the Grey Zone: Propaganda vs. Free Speech.” In the middle of the event, we received chilling news: the Kremlin had branded our organization “undesirable.” The irony was as sharp as it was intentional.
Putin Has Vast Vulnerabilities: The Free Russia Foundation Wants To Reveal Them To The West.
Henry Kissinger was my professor at Harvard, back in the early 1960s. The biggest thing I remember from many courses with him was his statement that Americans excel in our capacity for self-criticism, including exploring our weaknesses. What we aren’t good at is assessing the vulnerabilities of our adversaries.This is a thought that would resonate with Natalia Arno, founder of the Free Russia Foundation, an organization that advocates for democracy in Russia.
The U.S. Should Help This Russian Dissident Survive
THE WALL STREET JOURNALreported last week that U.S. intelligence agencies have found Russian President Vladimir Putin culpable for the murder of democracy leader Alexei Navalny in his Siberian prison camp last February, but found that “he probably didn’t order it at that moment.” That assessment comports with President Biden’s statement after Navalny’s death: “Make no mistake: Putin is responsible for Navalny’s death.” Putin may not have determined the time of Navalny’s murder, but he had...
A Simple US Step Can Help Protect Another Imprisoned Democracy Activist in Russia
The world does not yet know exactly what happened in Alexei Navalny’s final hours. We do know that he was poisoned with a nerve agent in 2020, then after returning to Russia to continue his public opposition to Vladimir Putin and his regime, was immediately arrested and spent years isolated in abusive conditions in prison. His death last month in a remote Russian penal colony was almost certainly an assassination.
Russia’s Forcible Transfers of Ukrainian Civilians: How Civil Society Aids Accountability and Justice
Since the start of the February 2022 illegal invasion of Ukraine by Russia, countless heinous war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed by the Russian military and its proxies. Evidence has shown bombings of civilian targets including health-care facilities, as well as rape and other forms of sexual violence, mass killings and mass graves, and destruction of humanitarian convoys and corridors. Some estimates put the number of war crimes reported to date at more than 71,000 cases.
Free Russia Foundation-2019: a Year in Review
2019 has been another incredibly eventful year for all of us at Free Russia Foundation, with more critically important programs and interesting projects, new and invaluable team members, new offices, more in-depth research and vital cutting-edge reports, more partners, supporters and publicity, and more ambitious ideas.
Why We Must Speak Out about Oleg Sentsov Now
Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker imprisoned by Russian forces in 2014, is on the verge of death. More than one hundred days ago, he began a hunger strike to demand that Russian President Vladimir Putin free sixty-four Ukrainian political prisoners being held in Russia. Since then, Sentsov has lost almost 70 pounds and suffered cardiac complications. In early August, he confided to his lawyer that “the end was near” and this week he told his cousin that his limbs are going numb.
Odious Film about Russian Whistle-Blower Screens at Newseum
On June 13, the Newseum did what the European Parliament was too principled to do: it showed The Magnitsky Act, Russian filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov’s controversial new film about Sergei Magnitsky.Magnitsky was a Russian tax lawyer who investigated a tax fraud scheme on behalf of his client, British-American financier William Browder.
Natalia Arno: Why Sunday’s massive protests will change Russia - Mar. 29, 2017
Natalia Arno: Why Sunday’s massive protests will change Russia Published March 29 at 9:41 am Riot police officers detain a protester during an unauthorised anti-corruption rally in central Moscow on March 26, 2017. Photo by AFP The poem and song, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” became a rallying cry for social injustice in America in the 1970s.
If the world blinks, Putin will seize the rest of Ukraine
This will be a crucial year for Ukraine’s delicately balanced democracy and sovereignty. A real danger exists that Russian President Vladimir Putin will scan the new world order and think the time is right to complete his takeover of Ukraine. An inwardly focused nationalism is taking the global stage in the U.S. (with the election of President Trump) and in England (with the Brexit vote).
Odious Film about Russian Whistle-Blower Screens at Newseum
On June 13, the Newseum did what the European Parliament was too principled to do: it showed The Magnitsky Act, Russian filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov’s controversial new film about Sergei Magnitsky.Magnitsky was a Russian tax lawyer who investigated a tax fraud scheme on behalf of his client, British-American financier William Browder.
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