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Director for Special Research . Turkey + former Soviet Union, mostly. Email: schenkkan[at]freedomhouse[dot]org.

Joined January 2010
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    Jul 20

    New policy brief from me on US-Turkey relations after the elections:

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    Nov 27

    FT profile of Chinese photographer Lu Guang, now feared detained after going missing in Xinjiang

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    11 hours ago

    To this date, I have not found a book that better encapsulates Russian foreign policy.

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    11 hours ago

    When I was a kid, there was this book, Sideways Stories From Wayside School. In it, there's this girl named Kathy who is convinced everyone hates her and thus goes out of her way to bully and insult other kids and then feels vindicated when everyone tells her they hate her.

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  5. 7 hours ago

    TAJIK

    📣Attention undergrads & grad students: Are you interested in studying Arabic Hebrew…
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  6. 8 hours ago

    "interviewed"

    Chuck Norris interviewed Viktor Orban
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  7. 9 hours ago

    Still consider this the moment the alarm bells went haywire

    This was always there in plain sight with no clear explanation
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    20 hours ago

    This should be used in journalism school on how the press proliferates gendered/sexist discourse. 1 candidate is defined by physical appearance & # of children 1 candidate is defined by sexual preference And the white male candidate is defined by wealth & profession

    One is a diminutive mother-of-three with outsize glasses, another a 38-year-old gay man and the third a millionaire lawyer – but who will be Angela Merkel's successor?
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    11 hours ago

    Folks, it’s a long, hard battle but and are proud partners w/ on the Surveillance Strategic Litigation Initiative: a project that seeks justice for human rights defenders targeted with malicious software like NSO’s. More to come!

    Proud that our ⁦⁩ And ⁦⁩ is partnering w/ on the Surveillance Strategic Litigation Initiative: a project that seeks justice for human rights defenders targeted with malicious software like NSO’s (see mention here).
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  10. 11 hours ago

    Kind of incredible to think that what Hungary is doing in media ownership is more blatant than how Turkey has gone about consolidating the mainstream.

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    12 hours ago

    Attention social science Ph.D. Students working on Russia. Here is a grant competition sponsored by Carnegie Corp. NY via Harriman. Up to $20k in research funds. Apps due January 9, 2019

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  12. 11 hours ago

    Hungary establishes de facto state media apparatus under a non-profit foundation - new frontiers in contemporary illiberal governance

    A big group of owners donating commercially successful private media to a government run foundation. Nothing shady here whatsoever.
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    11 hours ago

    "When I turned off my tape recorder the old people would turn and say, "my son, don't be fooled by what you see in Istanbul. This is Turkey" " A great podcast: 'Avedis Hadjian on the ‘hidden Armenians’ of Anatolia'

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    16 hours ago

    Vashadze has not conceded 's presidential election, urging supporters to wait for final exit polls. leader said he did not recognise the elections and called for demonstrations demanding snap parliamentary elections.

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    13 hours ago

    Buckle up!

    Ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili calls upon his supporters to start rallies. "I urge people [to launch] open protest rallies to demand snap parliamentary elections. I call on the army and police to stand on the side of people and…
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    14 hours ago

    Buried at the bottom of this is the broader risk from S-400, beyond the F-35. Specifically, the export licenses for defense industrial coop on a slew of other projects

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    17 hours ago

    There is significant misunderstanding about if/how rights can be restricted under martial law in . Case in point: deputy from states that all public actions, meetings, and gatherings are prohibited automatically

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  18. 15 hours ago

    The whole American health care system is a scandal, but FSAs for me somehow embody the jury-rigged malevolence of the whole thing the best.

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  19. 15 hours ago

    It's that magical time of the year in America, right after Thanksgiving but before Christmas, when you have to guess how much money your family will spend on health care next year so you can maximize your tax benefit, and if you get it wrong you lose money.

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  20. 15 hours ago

    Surprising

    : Exit polls from Georgia's presidential runoff showed the ruling party's candidate Salome Zurabishvili winning the vote.
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    21 hours ago

    Whaddya know, the "millionaire lawyer" also has three children

    One is a diminutive mother-of-three with outsize glasses, another a 38-year-old gay man and the third a millionaire lawyer – but who will be Angela Merkel's successor?
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