From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia

In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today’s most contentious and consequential international relationships… From the first days of McFaul’s ambassadorship, the Kremlin actively sought to discredit and undermine him, hassling him with tactics that included dispatching protesters to his front gates, slandering him on state media, and tightly surveilling him, his staff, and his family. From Cold War to Hot Peace is an essential account of the most consequential global confrontation of our time.
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• twitter .com/Billbrowder/status/1536661391658172422  (‘  Bill Browder : New Canadian legislation will make it easier for human rights violators to be sanctioned under the Canadian Magnitsky Act. Now MP’s will be able to demand that the government adds villains to the Magnitsky list through something called “the parliamentary trigger.”    @DFisman   ‘)
• twitter .com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1536624474920992768 (‘  Few scenarios are more alarming than a continuation of Russia’s current descent into full-scale fascism under an increasingly isolated and unhinged Putin. He is already the greatest single threat to global security and will likely remain so until he loses power. “, @anders_aslund : https://t.co/yi91s0PuuU ‘)
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• twitter .com/McFaul (‘ Professor. Michael McFaul : https://t.co/dRaV2lko50 , Stanford, California, https://t.co/gjVbfjzb0f ‘)
• michaelmcfaul .com (‘ Michael McFaul is a leading expert on Russia, American foreign policy, and democratic development around the world. A former U.S. ambassador to Russia, McFaul is currently a professor of political science at Stanford University, the director of Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution… ‘)
• michaelmcfaul .com/node (‘ video June 6, 2022, Amb. Michael McFaul: Putin ‘will end the war when his forces on the battlefield can no longer advance’ ‘)