Timothy J. Colton

Aug 23, 2023 | journalofdemocracy.org | Timothy J. Colton

While widespread violence or civil war was averted, the consequences for Russia—and Putin—could be grave. By Timothy J. ColtonJune 2023Vladimir Putin set the stage for this weekend’s remarkable events by launching a major land war in Ukraine in 2022 for no good reason, without a sensible strategy, and without a sufficient number of armed forces that might have brought success.

Jun 25, 2023 | journalofdemocracy.org | Kathryn Stoner |Zoltan Barany |Robert Person |Timothy J. Colton

Vladimir Putin just survived the most serious threat to his more than two decades of autocratic rule. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the outfit of mercenaries and criminals known as the Wagner Group, may have stopped his advance on Moscow and ended his mutiny, but he has left Russia’s autocrat appearing weaker and more humiliated before the world—and the Russian people—than ever before.