American expert optimistic about climate cooperation between Russia, US
Keith Darden, an Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, noted that the sides are showing there will be both tension and cooperation in the US-Russian relationship
WASHINGTON, April 24. /TASS/. Russia and the US can manage to make progress on climate change, Keith Darden, an Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, told TASS. I am cautiously optimistic that Russia and the US can manage to make progress on climate change, strategic stability and other areas where we can benefit from cooperation, he said.
What is behind the surge in hostility between Moscow and Kyiv?
Tensions are rising ominously in eastern Ukraine. Fighting has surged along the line of contact between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatists. Kyiv has cracked down internally on perceived Russian sympathizers. Russia has moved thousands of troops near the border with Ukraine, prompting Kyiv to turn to NATO with calls for support. Many are painting the situation as an early test of the Biden administration’s mettle.
What is behind the surge in hostility between Moscow and Kyiv? How likely is full-scale warfare between Russia and Ukraine? And what is at stake for the United States?
Corruption Cuts Both Ways in Russia s Surveillance State bloomberg.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bloomberg.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Corruption cuts both ways in Russia s surveillance state
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
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The relationship between the surveillance state and corruption is one of the most fascinating aspects of today s increasingly data-based governance. The means by which Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny claims to have discovered the names of the eight secret police agents who allegedly tried to poison him in August show how the same tech-based methods that governments use to track citizens also enable citizens to fight back.
Theoretically, corruption should be impossible in a strong surveillance state, which can constantly watch and track every potentially greedy official and every citizen hoping to grease the wheels. There are cameras everywhere, telephone, email and even online messenger records are routinely kept by operators and accessed by investigators, cash dealings have become far more difficult than in the 20th century. But, as Keith Darden from Yale Universi
How corruption cuts both ways in Russiaâs surveillance state
How corruption cuts both ways in Russiaâs surveillance state
The Russian state is both strong and corrupt, and it both hogs and leaks the data on which its strength increasingly rests.
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The relationship between the surveillance state and corruption is one of the most fascinating aspects of todayâs increasingly data-based governance. The means by which Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny claims to have discovered the names of the eight secret police agents who allegedly tried to poison him in August show how the same tech-based methods that governments use to track citizens also enable citizens to fight back.