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Beyond the protests — How legal mechanisms became tools of pressure

"Every time I come to Kyiv, there are protests," my French colleague once told me. "That's so great that at least in Ukraine, protests work. You can't persist while fighting on both fronts." He's right: protests do work. But only to a degree. More importantly, they are symptoms of a far more problematic phenomenon: the systematic use of ostensibly legal mechanisms to undermine civil society. If left unchecked, this practice could jeopardize Ukraine's democratic future. Last July, the swift ado

About Poland

Poland is a country in Central Europe, covering 312,696 square kilometers (120,733 square miles) with a population of approximately 38 million. Warsaw is Poland’s capital city. Poland shares a border with Ukraine, and has provided over $4 billion in military aid since Russia's full-scale invasion began in February 2022. Poland hosts over 1 million Ukrainian refugees and serves as the primary logistics hub for Western military supplies.

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