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evolution www.freedomhouse.org 23 EFTA00804747 BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians in Ukraine, the Maidan uprising of 2013-14, forced him to flee to Russia after a bloody crackdown failed to disperse the demonstrators. Among other things, the episode s

ussian influence with Nazi collaborators and pogromists. This served not only to explain Moscow's response, but also to deter any emulation of the Maidan protests in Russia itself. The assault on academic freedom Since the occupation of Crimea and invasion of east- ern Ukraine, it has become increasi

and persecution. They are frequent- ly jailed on trumped-up charges of defamation, tax fraud, or drug trafficking, among others. 12 EFTA00804736 Freedom House 2. Marginalizing the opposition: As noted above, authoritarian leaders use their media power to paint critics as knaves or buffoons. Especially t

yiv's central Maidan square." Lukashenko is quoted as saying, "We will not allow the country to be torn apart.... As I have warned, there will be no Maidan, no matter how much anyone wants one. People need to quiet down and calm down." Reuters <https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belarus-election-usa-po

ternational Republican Institute President Daniel Twining, Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth, and Michael Abramowitz, president of Freedom House. The Washington Post <https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-democracy-and-human-rights-leaders-sanctioned-by- china-vow-not-to-be-cowe

offer no conflicting opinions and present American leaders as puppet masters. Among other claims, the docu- mentary asserts that Washington gave the Maidan forces information about Ukrainian security methods that American officials had obtained during bilateral exchange programs with the Kyiv government.

tions with other regional states. Turkey similarly claimed a policy of “zero problems” with its neighbors in the period before the Syrian civil war. Freedom House's Tyler Roylance has described a “common set of concessions" that 21st-century au- thoritarians made to the prevailing democratic ethos in the wake of