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Fletcher Visiting Scholar Maxim Krupskiy examines how the recent armed rebellion by Russian private military company the Wagner Group against President Vladimir Putin and the shocking lack of criminal repercussions for these actions characterizes “a new stage of degradation of the Russian legal system.”

Fletcher’s Chris Miller is quoted from the July 12 New York Times Magazine article on the Biden administration's efforts to prevent China from getting access to cutting-edge semiconductors. 

As part of Cummings School’s collaboration on efforts to increase the number of veterinarians in Ukraine, Dean Alastair Cribb arranged to have a Ukrainian veterinarian who fled his country to work at Cummings and act as a liaison between Ukrainian veterinarians and the International Aid Committee.

Fletcher’s Alex de Waal assesses the current situation in Sudan, for which African leaders have a plan for peace “but there are still many roadblocks.”

Distinguished Professor and Friedman School Dean Emeritus Dariush Mozaffarian is quoted about the new World Health Organization findings on the artificial sweetener aspartame, saying, “The larger challenge is that with aspartame, like other additives, there’s just not enough science to say definitively, ‘Yes, this causes cancer’ or ‘No, it doesn’t.’”

TUSM Dean, Tufts Medicine Chief Academic Officer, and Tufts Medical Center Infectious Disease Physician Helen Boucher is quoted at length from her testimony at a Senate subcommittee hearing on antimicrobial resistance on July 11.

Fletcher’s Zdenka Myslikova and Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton co-author this article highlighting Chile as an example of how Latin American countries are “embracing renewable energy while trying to plan a more self-reliant future.”

Fletcher’s Zdenka Myslikova and Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton co-author this article highlighting Chile as an example of how Latin American countries are “embracing renewable energy while trying to plan a more self-reliant future.” 

Fletcher’s Kenneth Pucker foresees that new French and EU anti-greenwashing and labelling laws will create consequences for a lack of adherence and drive new behaviors to reduce environmental impacts.