Ariel Cohen is Henry Salvatori Fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. He has published widely on U.S.-Russian relations and democratization in the former Soviet Union.
Events last November confouned expectations set by the failure of democratization in Russia and other ex-Soviet republics, and should prompt new reflections on how fragile openings to democacy may be…
In East-Central Europe, neither physical proximity nor memories of Soviet domination have united countries in their response to the war in Ukraine. What matters most is who stands to benefit.