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Meet the lobbyists fronting for Azerbaijan in Washington
Washington Politics

Meet the lobbyists fronting for Azerbaijan in Washington

Armenians were blockaded and run out of Nagorno-Karabakh this year, and the US largely did nothing.

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Washington Politics

How the UAE turns its interests into US policy

A new Quincy Institute report examines one of the largest and most well financed foreign influence operations inside the United States.

Was Saudi aid in prisoner swap part of grand PR blitz?
Europe

Was Saudi aid in prisoner swap part of grand PR blitz?

Riyadh said MBS was behind the Ukraine-Russia exchange for "compassionate reasons" but the lobbying afterward says differently.

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Washington Politics

Can think tanks be foreign agents?

New Justice Department guidance should serve as cautionary tale for those organizations doing other countries' bidding.

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Europe

Ukraine far outperforms Russia — on the lobbying front, in Washington

Both sides had been battling it out long before Moscow's invasion, but it turned out money was no match for message in the end.

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Washington Politics

The well-traveled road from member of Congress to foreign agent

Since 2000, nearly 100 former lawmakers have become lobbyists for countries like Saudi Arabia and China in Washington.