Maidan, One Year Later: The Changing Face of Politics in Ukraine

About the EventFeaturing:Serhiy Leshchenko, Hanna Hopko, and Oleksandr Solontay, Recipients of the 2014 NDI Democracy AwardWith an introduction by:Nadia Diuk, National Endowment for DemocracyUkraine...

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NED President’s Remarks to the Ukrainian American Bar Association

There are two important post-communist anniversaries this week. The first is on Monday, November 17 - the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, on which occasion a bust of Vaclav Havel will be unveiled in the U.S. Capitol. The second, just as...

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The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information, Culture, and Money

In an era where freedom of speech and information are considered to be sacred, what happens when a powerful international actor abuses those freedoms to spread disinformation? This is the question that journalists Peter Pomerantsev and Michael Weiss explored in a new report examining how the regime...

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Worth Reading (Nov. 4, 2014): Four New Books

Forum NewsThis issue of Worth Reading features four recent books by authors affiliated with the National Endowment for Democracy: NED Board and Research Council Member Francis Fukuyama's Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization...

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