Anne Applebaum wrote the book on autocracy. Then she thanked a sanctioned oligarch at his Oxford school.
She attacks Trump's envoy for his Russia ties—without mentioning he's business partners with the man she thanked at Oxford.
Ilya Zaslavskiy
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Ilya Zaslavskiy is a specialist in due diligence, sanctions, and kleptocracy. He holds an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford. He heads Underminers.info, a research project exposing Eurasian kleptocrats in the West. Until April 2025, he was a senior campaigner with Razom We Stand, and since then has continued with the academic research on Russia’s malign influence in the West. He was previously a fellow at Chatham House, and a senior program manager at the Center for International Private Enterprise. He wrote multiple research papers for the Atlantic Council, Hudson Institute, Martens Centre, and other leading think tanks.