Miriam Lanskoy

Miriam Lanskoy is senior director for Russia and Eurasia at the National Endowment for Democracy. She is the author, with Ilyas Akhmadov, of The Chechen Struggle: Independence Won and Lost (2010).

April 2019, Volume 30, Issue 2

Armenia’s Velvet Revolution

In 2018, a peaceful protest movement brought down Armenia’s semiauthoritarian government and ushered in a new political era, the culmination of a long struggle for national pride, self-determination, and democracy.

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October 2008, Volume 19, Issue 4

Georgia’s Year of Turmoil

A domestic political crisis began brewing in Georgia long before the current conflict with Russia. Since the Rose Revolution, the country has been troubled by flawed elections, a “superpresidency,” and a malleable constitution.