Chris Alexander, Author at The Northern European

Chris Alexander

Chris Alexander served in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2009 – first as Canada’s ambassador, then as deputy head of the UN mission. He was minister of citizenship and immigration in Stephen Harper’s Conservative government. Before 2003, he also served for six years in the Canadian embassy in Moscow, including as deputy head of mission.

Analysis, Belarus, Estonia, Finland, History, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, RussiaAugust 27, 2019<August 27, 2019

How Putin’s Stalinist nostalgia made him an enemy of democracy

For roughly as long as there have been democratic elections, there has been the threat and practice of foreign interference. Certainly, new developments have…