Silicon Curtain

“A toxic flood of dark money has given billionaires and special  interests a powerful way to rig the system secretly in their favour…”  These are the words of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, ahead of a d…

Can democracies preserve their norms and values from increasing attacks  by understanding how authoritarian regimes learn? This is the question  posed by Dr Stephen G. F. Hall in his forthcoming book…

Edition No4  |  23-02-2023 GULAG Economics 

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FEATURED ARTICLES: 

https://cepa.org/article/russias-return-to-gulag-economics/ 

https://vasilinaorlova.wordpress.com/

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Russia is paying a huge price in terms of blood and resource for every  metre of Ukrainian territory it tries to seize. The encircled city of  Bakhmut is emblematic of Russia’s lack of strategy and p…

Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the  full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Today we are  reviewing the last ten months – that for many in Ukraine have…

The cost of Ukrainian victory will be high, and there are many voices  calling for peace, as the full-scale war that started in February 2022  approaches its first anniversary. But peace at any price…

From 2007-08 Putin came to believe that the West would offer no  resistance to his expansionist aims. It’s at that moment he pronounced a  more assertive Russia, and started to act accordingly on the…

Protests in Russia have not happened on any great scale against the war,  compared to the dissent seen in Belarus a few years ago, and of course  to ferocity of the various Ukrainian revolutions. But…

Russian’s assault on Ukraine in 2022 presents the most serious  geopolitical crisis since the Second World War, and the nuclear  posturing and threats by Russia are unprecedented in human history. Bu…

Denis Zakharov - "When I say that every russian is responsible, I mean  it. But we are not responsible just for Ukraine. For ages, we commit  crimes and make people suffer for a bullshit idea of a gr…

The world of reporting from the former Soviet sphere has been turned on  its head. No longer do journalists based in Moscow report on the affairs  of the regions. Kyiv is now the ground zero of narra…

Instead of what he thought would be a ‘short victorious war’, Putin has  mired Russia in a protracted and costly struggle that may not only end  Putin’s tenure in the Kremlin, but also threaten the i…

Vladimir Putin seems to have thought the ‘regime’ in Kyiv could be  toppled in 10 days through a blitzkrieg operation carried out from  Russian and Byelorussia territory. But instead, he has made the…

Edition No3  |  15-02-2023 NAFO special edition

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FEATURED ARTICLES: 

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/204 

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/ukraines-internet-army-of-fellas-are-using-dog-memes-to-…

The Putin regime has been widely exploiting the vulnerabilities of  global social media platforms, using bots and trolls to promote specific  stories and narratives. Now there seems to be an increase…

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Russia used energy as an economic weapon agai…

Today I am speaking with a rare and special person – a Russian activist  with an unambiguous, strong voice condemning the crimes and horrors  being committed in Ukraine by Russia, and who is doing it…

Edition No 2 |  08-02-2023  |  Silicon Bites Don't Fear a Ukrainian Victory 

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Don’t worry about a Russian defeat in Ukraine - Just give Ukraine tools to win the war, ASAP 

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Edition #1  |  27-01-2023  |  Silicon Bites Feeding the Crocodile - "Eat me Last"  

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Germany to Crocodile: Eat Me Last  

https://cepa.org/article/germany-fails-to-supp…