David J. Kramer

David J. Kramer is a senior fellow in the Vaclav Havel Program on Human Rights and Diplomacy at Florida International University’s Green School of International and Public Affairs and a former assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor.

Stories by David J. Kramer

Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev ahead of an informal Commonwealth of Independent States leaders summit at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on Dec. 26, 2017. (Alexey Druzhinin/AFP/Getty Images)

Azerbaijan’s Election Is a Farce

Argument |

Richard Kauzlarich, David J. Kramer

April 11, 2018, 6:05 AM

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Dialogue of Emerging Market and Developing Countries on the sidelines of the 2017 BRICS Summit in Xiamen, southeastern China's Fujian Province on September 5, 2017.
Xi opened the annual summit of BRICS leaders that already has been upstaged by North Korea's latest nuclear weapons provocation. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / WU HONG (Photo credit should read WU HONG/AFP/Getty Images)

Russia Isn’t the Answer to America’s Problems With North Korea

Elephants in the Room |

David J. Kramer

September 28, 2017, 12:13 PM

ORENBURG, RUSSIA- SEPTEMBER 19: Russian President Vladimir Putin talks to officers as he attends Russias large-scale Center-2015 military exercises at Donguzsky Range September 19, 2015 in Orenburg, Russia, The exercises, aim to contain the outbreak of an armed conflict in Central Asia. Putin said this week that it's impossible to defeat Islamic State group without support of the government of Syria and that Moscow has provided military assistance to President Bashar al-Assad's regime and will continue to do so. (Photo by Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)

Russia’s Hacking Is Only Putin’s Latest Outrage

Shadow Government |

David J. Kramer

July 28, 2016, 7:17 PM

JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images

Putting Freedom Back on the Agenda

Argument |

David J. Kramer, Arch Puddington

January 15, 2013, 11:30 PM

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Medvedev the Phony

Argument |

Lilia Shevtsova, David J. Kramer

May 7, 2012, 8:14 PM

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