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Michael McFaul

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Professor of Political Science, Director of Freeman Spogli Institute & Hoover Senior Fellow all at Stanford University. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 2012-2014.

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Action Plan 4.0 Strengthening Sanctions Against the Russian Federation Working Group Paper #22 May 6, 2025 fsi9-prod.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/20…

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🇺🇦🇪🇺 Ukraine will ask the EU to hand over all confiscated Russian assets subject to sanctions, — Reuters. Kyiv has prepared and will present in Brussels next week a 40-page document with proposals for strengthening sanctions against Russia. In particular, the seizure of

🇺🇦🇪🇺 Ukraine will ask the EU to hand over all confiscated Russian assets subject to sanctions, — Reuters.

Kyiv has prepared and will present in Brussels next week a 40-page document with proposals for strengthening sanctions against Russia. 

In particular, the seizure of
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All presidents have pursued what they believed to be American national interests. Rubio's suggestion that Trump is "returning" to this practice is absurd.

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"Our International Working Group on Russian Sanctions has repeatedly recommended using these Russian assets to make the aggressor pay and finance Ukraine. We have spelled out the legal reasoning and the mechanics for doing so (see our Working Paper #15). In a new paper called

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There is nothing "pro-Russian" about supporting the slaughter of tens of thousands of young Russians to die in the meaningless war in Ukraine, which aims to expand the borders of the largest country in the world. That is profoundly anti-Russian.

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Hey, team Trump, how are you competing with this? By cutting USAID? By shutting down Voice of America? By drastically reducing student exchanges? Time to up your game. Or else we will lose the 21st century to China. cc: Secretary Marco Rubio

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.Open Technology Fund’s Rapid Response Fund has supported over 400 rapid response interventions in more than 80 countries, including China, Cuba, Iran, Russia, and Uganda. Learn more about the Fund, plus other key results from our internet freedom work: ow.ly/FwLo50VrIPN

.<a href="/OpenTechFund/">Open Technology Fund</a>’s Rapid Response Fund has supported over 400 rapid response interventions in more than 80 countries, including China, Cuba, Iran, Russia, and Uganda. 

Learn more about the Fund, plus other key results from our internet freedom work: ow.ly/FwLo50VrIPN
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The degree of state intervention in the private sector under Trump 2.0 is shocking. Using government power to destroy a private university reminds me of what communists did when they took over eastern Europe. This must stop. If it doesn't, we have no chance of competing

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Not only does this deprive the United States of money, it deprives us of the world’s top talent that we need in order to remain competitive. We gain absolutely nothing from this.

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If Trump's anti-immigrant, anti-foreign student policies had been in place decades ago, Oxford grad Elon Musk would have built Tesla in the UK, Tsinghua grad Jensen Huang would have built Nvidia in the PRC & Moscow State grad Sergei Brim would have built Google in Russia. Insane.