Russia

A court case shows the complexity of weighing a constitutional guarantee against the obligation to protect the State in war.

Bolot Temirov on the personal cost of the country's repression of media and civil society, as democracy gives way to authoritarianism.

Congress has imposed significant constraints on the president's ability to unilaterally lift sanctions imposed on Russia for its aggression in Ukraine in increasingly specific…

US presidents of both parties have agreed for 60 years on the need to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. Trump has signaled he’s not so sure.

Recent U.S. Department of Justice actions against Russia's covert influence operations underscores the efficacy of legal countermeasures founded on actionable cyber threat intelligence.…

It is unlikely that Democratic messaging will emphasize the importance of aid to the same extent as Republican attacks will question it.

Its track record and transparency practices, as well as the testimony of researchers, make it plain its claims of security are not to be trusted.

In his thought-provoking essay in Just Security, Chris O’Meara provides an insightful analysis of Ukraine’s recent incursion into Kursk Oblast under the law governing the use…

The UN Charter, the law on the use of force, and the conditions that body of law places on Ukraine's military operation in Russia's Kursk Oblast.

Invoking an exception to the ICC's jurisdiction would not only be a regression from Ukraine's otherwise commendable engagement with international law, it would also contradict…

Internal repression -- more than 1,400 political prisoners -- extends outward, too, as dictator Alexander Lukashenka's threatens US and EU security with hybrid ops and nuclear…

Collective countermeasures are the effective legal mechanism for Ukraine to restore some balance vis-à-vis Russia.