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Beneficial ownership in Mongolia: A way forward (Michael Barron, Tim Law, Jake Hartnett, Batsugar Tsedendamba, Amar Adiya, and Ariuntsetseg Jigmeddorj, Brookings)

Beneficial ownership transparency (BOT) is important to build trust and confidence in the integrity of extractive industries, and indeed a country’s entire economy. Demands...

Why the AUKUS Submarine Deal Is Bad for Nonproliferation—And What to Do About It (James M. Acton, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

On Wednesday, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States announced the formation of a new trilateral security partnership, AUKUS. Its first project will be “to...

Sideswiped: Apple, Google, and the Kremlin’s Make-Believe Election (Steven Feldstein, Andrew S. Weiss, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

Western tech firms were sucked into the vortex of the Kremlin’s crackdown on opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s organization in the run-up to last week’s predictably dull Duma elections....

What’s Working and What Isn’t in Researching Influence Operations? (Alicia Wanless, Lawfare)

All Eye Overlord by Aswin Behera. (Source: Cyber Visuals) The world first learned about Russian attempts to manipulate the information environment in 2013. Staff hired...

What the U.S.-British-Australian Security Pact Means for Europe (Rosa Balfour, Carnegie Europe)

During the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the complaint from some European NATO members of insufficient consultation by the U.S. administration may have come across...

Zelenskyy slams UN inaction over Putin’s Ukraine war (Peter Dickinson, Atlantic Council)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the UN General Assembly in New York. September 22, 2021. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used his September 22 address...

Reloading Ukraine’s corporate governance reforms (Iaroslav Zhelezniak, Andriy Boytsun, Oleksandr Lysenko, Atlantic Council)

Controversial developments at energy giant Naftogaz in early 2021 have revived the debate over corporate governance reforms at Ukraine's state-owned enterprises. (REUTERS/Gleb Garanich) Corporate governance...

Ukraine’s leader takes UN to task as ‘retired superhero’ (Jennifer Peltz, AP)

Leaders who are “playing” at unity and stuffing pressing problems into an overflowing bag of woe. A world that’s in the same boat, but...

Ukraine leader’s aide survives assassination attempt (BBC News)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has promised a strong response after one of his top aides survived an apparent assassination attempt. Ukraine leader's aide survives assassination...

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