Welcome everyone to the sixth annual Cybersecurity Workshop and Happy New Year. I am very pleased that we are back in person, hosting this important event at our head office in Washington, D.C. This comes after a gap of two years when the pandemic forced us to meet virtually only. …

Vadim Shtepa, whose book Interregnum (Petrozavodsk, 2012) introduced regionalism to a Russian audience and who edits the Tallinn-based regionalist portal Region.Expert, says that after Russia suffers defeat in its imperialist war in Ukraine, “regionalism in Russia will return and in even more radical forms than it took a decade ago.”  The regionalist says …

Some politicians just hate politics. They get into the game in order to disrupt it. They have such a visceral hatred of governance that, like suicide bombers, they’ve smuggled themselves into government in order to blow it up from within. Much of the coverage of the multiple attempts to elect …