Dean Jackson
April 7, 2016
Russia Reaps Rewards from the Rise of Europe’s Far Right
Across Europe, far-right political parties are on the march, write Alina Polyakova and Anton Shekhovtsov in a new issue brief from the Atlantic Council. But Europe’s far-right parties have also...
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December 17, 2015
In Kazakhstan, the New Year May Ring in New Online Restrictions
On November 30, 2015, the authorities in Kazakhstan fired off the latest salvo in authoritarian regimes’ battle against Internet freedom. Kazakhtelecom, the Central Asian country’s largest telecommunications company, released a...
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December 8, 2015
Increasingly Under Control: Five Years of Decline in Freedom on the Net
Frequent readers of this blog will not be surprised that authoritarian regimes are investing heavily in methods of obstructing and manipulating online speech. These investments have paid dividends: in each...
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November 5, 2015
Fear of the Unknown: Strategic Uncertainty and Self-Censorship
The independent Russian television channel TV Rain’s troubles accelerated with an online poll asking whether, during the Second World War, the Soviet Union ought to have surrendered the city of...
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September 22, 2015
The “GONGO Show”: Authoritarian Imposters Crowd-Out Civil Society
The closing space for civil society has been well documented, but sometimes modern autocrats find it more convenient to manipulate civic space than to close it. Contemporary authoritarian regimes are...
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July 14, 2015
The Authoritarian Surge into Cyberspace
In the early days of the Internet, it was difficult to imagine how authoritarian regimes could cope with such a powerful source of open information. Today, it is clear that...
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