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A series of conversations hosted by the United States Helsinki Commission on human rights and comprehensive security in Europe and beyond. The Helsinki Commission, formally known as the Comm...
How does the Soviet Union's approach to human rights compare to contemporary Russia? Bakhti is joined by historian Benjamin Nathans to discu...
Bakhti is joined by Sarah McLaughlin, a senior scholar focused on global expression at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression....
Why does religious freedom matter in today's world? Ambassador Sam Brownback draws on decades of experience to explain why it is central to...
On this week's episode, Bakhti sits down with Nastassia Rouda, director of Nasha Niva, a Belarusian media outlet operating in exile in Vilni...
On this episode of the Transatlantic, host Bakhti Nishanov talks to Georgiy Kent, who took an unusual detour after finishing his graduate pr...
Is the United States a nation state? Does it have a national identity? On this episode of the Transatlantic, scholar Colin Woodard discusses...
Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it has also escalated a shadow war against the West. Using cyberattacks, destructi...
For decades Western policymakers have struggled to understand the mindset of the Russian people and their leaders. This episode of The Trans...
In the years since it launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has subjected thousands of Ukrainian civilians to tortuous treatme...
The Helsinki Commission's podcast is back! We are excited to be launching The Transaltantic, a podcast bringing you human stories across oce...
Transgender journalist Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, a U.S. citizen, joins host Alex Tiersky to describe her journey, first to Ukraine as a war corr...
The OSCE has been central to diplomatic efforts around Russia's war against Ukraine. In this episode, Ambassador Michael Carpenter, U.S. Per...
Since February 2022, thousands of non-Ukrainians have signed up to help defend Ukraine from Russian aggression. In this episode, two former...
One particularly insidious tool in Russia's arsenal of aggression is the Kremlin's use of mercenaries, in particular against Ukraine. In thi...
The physical battle of tanks and bombs or territory gained and lost is only one terrible part of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's war again...
When the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security was adopted in 2000, it marked the first time that the UN Securit...
The Chinese Communist Party poses major challenges to the transatlantic community's ideals of governance and human rights. In this episode,...
From September 10 – 16, ZAPAD 2021—a major Russian military exercise that includes thousands of troops—will take place in and around Belarus...
The work of the Helsinki Commission aligns closely with that of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the world's...
The creation of the Moscow Helsinki Group was announced on May 12, 1976, a day that Helsinki Commission Chair Sen. Ben Cardin has called, "O...
The upcoming Tokyo Olympics, slated to take place late July after a one-year postponement, will be the first international athletic event si...
President Alexander Lukashenko has been in power in Belarus since 1994. In the run-up to elections in the summer of 2020, the Lukashenko reg...
Election observation is a core element of the OSCE's efforts to promote human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. Every OSCE participati...
Only July 11, 1995, more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys from the town of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina were rounded u...
Reports from nearly every corner of the OSCE region suggest that minority groups and vulnerable populations have been hit especially hard by...
Concentrated in post-communist Central and Southern Europe, Roma are the largest ethnic minority in Europe. Roma have historically faced per...
Through participation in parliamentary assemblies, national legislators can wield global influence on issues ranging from counterterrorism t...
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains one of the world's most intractable and long-standing territorial and e...
In Turkmenistan, detainees serving long-term prison sentences often literally "disappear" into the notorious Ovadan Depe prison outside of A...
Well-orchestrated disinformation campaigns by state and non-state actors aim to deceive the public and undermine democracy. President and CE...
How can the United States and Europe achieve a long-term vision of stable, and sustainable, and inclusive democracies? Political inclusion a...
What was a Russian military plane doing taking pictures over Washington, DC? Arms control experts Alexandra Bell, Senior Policy Director at...
Alexander Hug, former principal deputy chief monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, describes the toll taken on civilian...
Twenty years after U.S. citizens Ylli, Agron, and Mehmet Bytyqi were brutally murdered in Serbia in the aftermath of the 1999 conflict in Ko...
In the inaugural episode of "Helsinki on the Hill," the Helsinki Commission's first staff director, Spencer Oliver, shares how the Helsinki...