Epstein Secrets

ategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians 1. Andrew E. Kramer, "New Russian History:Yes, People Died,

ia Daily Monitor. No- vember 14, 2014, https://iamestown.ore/program/protectine-the.mothertand-russias-counter-color-revolution.military-doctrinet 2. Leon Aron, 'Drivers of Putin's Foreign Policy; American Enterprise Institute, June 14, 2016, https-f/www asintg/oublication/ drivets•pfrputins-foreinpolicy/2

"They're Salafists but not extremists," explains Andrew J. Tabler, a Syria expert at the Washington Inst

President's attention in the region for the next three years. Yet three years is a long time to fill a power vacancy in the Middle East. And while Leon Aron exaggerates slightly in his assessment that, after the Syrian chemical deal, "Russia is on equal footing now as a power in the Middle East," he rig

ion supporter ikhail Khodorkovsky was dispatched to a Rus- sian prison for 10 years for daring to challenge Putin. In 2017, anticorruption campaigner Andrei Navalny, widely regarded as the most serious challenger to Putin, was effectively eliminated from the 2018 presidential contest after being convicted

e-friendly organizations have generally been left alone. emorial, the human rights organization founded to carry forward the ideals associated with Andrey Sakharov, was one of the first groups to be unilaterally registered as a foreign agent by the Justice Ministry in 2014. In 2015, the ministry accuse

Daily Monitor, No- vember 14, 2014, https://jamestown.org/program/protecting-the-motherland-russias-counter-color-revolution-military-doctrine/. 2. Leon Aron, “Drivers of Putin's Foreign Policy,” American Enterprise Institute, June 14, 2016, https://www.aei.org/publication/ drivers-of-putins-foreign-policy