Ivana Stradner

November 5, 2025 | John Yoo, Ivana Stradner

The US must not endorse Russia and China’s vision for cybersecurity

Even as Russia and China wage a relentless cyber war against the West, the United Nations is celebrating a new cybercrime treaty whose chief architects were none other than Moscow...

October 3, 2025 | Ivana Stradner, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Europe Should Support Moldova Against Russian Meddling

Defeating Russian interference in Moldova’s election is merely the first step.

August 24, 2025 | Ivana Stradner |

Why we should still be terrified of Putin’s rewriting of Russian history

The Trump administration must not fall prey to Putin’s KGB tactics of psychological manipulation

August 14, 2025 | Ivana Stradner |

Will Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Defy Putin’s Attempt To Ban Its WhatsApp Chat Platform in Russia?

As the American tech giant contemplates Moscow’s latest authoritarian demand, the company should remember that the Kremlin has more to lose than WhatsApp.

July 31, 2025 | Emily Hester, Ivana Stradner

What it means for Russia’s fight in Ukraine to be a ‘holy war’

Excerpt The Russian Orthodox Church is supposed to bring people closer to God, not to Russian President Vladimir Putin. And yet, that seems to be just what the ROC is doing under Patriarch...

July 31, 2025 | Ivana Stradner, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Putin tries to use Moldova to undermine Ukraine and NATO

Russia’s foreign intelligence agency recently accused NATO of drawing Moldova into “armed conflict with Russia.” Moscow has also claimed that the tiny nation’s intelligence...

July 26, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Ivana Stradner

Trump Shouldn’t Fall for Russia’s Nuclear Bluster

It is time for Washington to stop giving these threats undue weight and instead expose their hollowness.

July 16, 2025 | Ivana Stradner |

Moldova is the next front in Russia’s assault on the West

Now is the time for Britain and allied countries to show the world that Russia is an empty shell

June 25, 2025 | Ivana Stradner |

Russia still holds an untold number of abducted Ukrainian children

Excerpt As negotiations continue between Russia and Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is pushing for the return of thousands of kidnapped Ukrainian children. Earlier...

June 17, 2025 | Ivana Stradner |

Trump should not fall for Putin’s gambit

Washington should not let the fox into the henhouse and allow Russia to mediate between Israel and Iran

May 29, 2025 | Ivana Stradner |

Putin’s love of Stalin should terrify us all

Britain must counteract Kremlin propaganda by portraying the Russian president as a weak leader

May 20, 2025 | Natalie Ecanow, Ivana Stradner

Qatar, Cultivating Friendships With Washington and Moscow, Plays the West Like a Fiddle

The burgeoning relationship between Qatar and Russia signals that the Kremlin is not as globally isolated as the West desires it to be — and Doha is not as neutral as it pretends to be.

May 9, 2025 | Ivana Stradner |

The best way to undermine Putin’s nasty revision of history is through mockery

The Russian president has shamelessly used VE day to paint a distorted version of WWII

April 21, 2025 | Ivana Stradner |

Serbia’s Future Hangs in the Balance

Serbia’s anti-corruption movement has reached new heights: a demonstration in Belgrade this March yielded hundreds of thousands of peaceful protestors and marked the largest demonstration in Serbia since the monumental 1990s protests against the tyrannical Milošević regime.

March 20, 2025 | Ivana Stradner |

Trump should not surrender in the information war against Putin’s Russia

As President Trump signed an executive order gutting the U.S. Agency for Global Media — which runs Voice of America and Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty — Washington is reportedly considering lifting sanctions on the Russian state-owned media outlet RT. That would be a mistake. ...

March 17, 2025 | Ivana Stradner |

A quick Western win over Putin is there for the taking, if we dare

Thirty years on from the Bosnian War, the Western Balkans is once more on the brink of conflict

February 13, 2025 | Ivana Stradner |

Trump and Hegseth are half right. We cannot have Minsk 3.0

Europe must do more for itself. But it cannot be abandoned

January 17, 2025 | Ivana Stradner |

Trump must not underestimate Putin’s ambitions to be a modern day Tsar

As Russia grinds forward on the battlefield, the West must not deceive itself into allowing the Kremlin to permanently subjugate Kyiv

December 19, 2024 | Peter Doran, Ivana Stradner

Trump must counter Vladimir Putin’s coming deception games — here’s how

Vladimir Putin’s regime is readying a new bag of diplomatic tricks for the second Trump administration, as the Kremlin angles to lure Trump’s incoming national-security team into helping...

November 15, 2024 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Ivana Stradner

Russia continues to subvert democracy in Moldova and Georgia

Excerpt America isn’t the only country that just held a consequential election. In the former Soviet republics of Moldova and Georgia, citizens recently voted in contests where aspirations to join...