As Russia ammasses more troops on the Ukrainian border, how will the West impose costs on Putin’s regime? Amidst mounting tensions in the Eastern European bloc, the U.S. looks to Ukraine to subvert the Russian agenda.
Author: Anne Kira Skowron
Anne is a human rights activist and refugee advocate. She is a Middle East Policy analyst and International Affairs research fellow at the University of California, Irvine.
Laïcité, or, secularism, has come to represent the cornerstone of a national identity based on French values. For the past century, French politics have made a virtue of secularism by largely banning institutionalized religion from the public sphere.
As the chaos unfolded, several foreign embassies in Washington issued stay-at-home notices for their citizens, and European leaders deployed strong language to express their condemnation.
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