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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

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Rosneft is Russia's state-controlled oil company and one of the world's largest petroleum producers, with headquarters in Moscow and operations across multiple countries. The company, majority-owned by the Russian government since 2004, controls significant oil and gas reserves and refining capacity that generate revenue supporting Russia's war economy. Western sanctions imposed after Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022 have targeted Rosneft's international operations.

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