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

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.

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

e many Ukrainians, who wanted their country to be oriented toward the European Union. Putin finally brought Yanukovych around, but this sparked the Maidan revolt, Yanukovych's rapid exit, and Putin's need to shift strategies. For both Khrushchev and Putin, a competition in risk-taking offered a beguil

is just one example of how the internet has facilitated political mobilization. Others include the civil unrest in Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park, the Maidan protests in Ukraine and the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, all in 2013 or 2014. In America the main instances have been Occupy Wall Street in 2011

cussed on social media. What's more, it was recently dubbed into Ukrainian and downloaded (some 300,000 times) by protesters there and shown in the Maidan, which also means the Square, in Kiev. A dubbed version is now spreading in Russia, too, said the film's director Jehane Noujaim, who also directed