The Kremlin's Decline in Russia

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Kari Slater: I think this is all part of the tightening of the screws and the closing down of the Russian system in the wake of the war in Ukraine. She says it signals a willingness by the Russian state to escalate to a level we again haven't seen at least in recent years. Slater: This is really going to make reporting on Russia, understanding what's happening inside Russia a whole lot harder.

Russia’s arrest of a Wall Street Journal correspondent is heading toward a diplomatic crisis—and will certainly chill foreign reporting in the country. It is startlingly easy to siphon money out of America’s social-welfare programmes, but devilishly difficult to thwart those efforts without threatening needy families. And ChatGPT may make things up, but it does so fluently in more than 50 languages.

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