Freedom of speech is complicated in Russia.
鈥淵ou can be assassinated for being an investigative reporter in Russia and that happens periodically,鈥� professor of political science and the director of the at the URochester, told host Evan Dawson when he recently appeared as a guest on
Yet, Stone notes, Russia still allows for more openness, discussion, and freedom of expression than some authoritarian countries. 鈥淚t does have elections, periodically. And those elections matter, at least at the local and regional level.鈥�
Stone, an expert on Russia and US-Russian relations, recently returned from a trip to Russia where he met with US and Russian foreign policy experts, the editor of the opposition newspaper , and the former Russian ambassador to the US, Sergei Kislyak, who is a key figure in the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
