Professor Jason Blazakis, director of the Middlebury Institute’s Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, recently penned an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times and The Mercury News, in addition to providing an interview for MSNBC, about the option of listing Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.
In what he calls “the ultimate sanction,” Blazakis argues that adding Russia to the U.S. government’s state sponsors of terrorism list should be a consideration, noting that the designation would hurt Russia’s financial system and relegate Russia to pariah status.
MA in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies
Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterrorism
Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies professor Dr. Jeffrey Lewis and a team of students noticed the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Google Maps hours before it was officially announced, the Washington Post reports.
| by By Erica Barbarossa
Almost immediately after news spread across the globe that Russia had, in fact, invaded Ukraine, Proud Boys’ telegram channels began posting about traveling to Ukraine to fight alongside Russian soldiers.
| by Matthew Jennings
The Ambassadorial Series, a groundbreaking docuseries produced by the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies at the Middlebury Institute, launches “The Ambassadorial Series: Deans of U.S.-Russia Diplomacy.”
