Kathryn Stoner

Mosbacher Director of Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Stanford political scientist focused on contemporary Russia, democratic transitions, autocracy, and global democracy.

Exiled Russian Opposition Can Still Pierce Putin’s Information Monopoly

At a Hoover Institution screening of Lyuba’s Hope, Russian opposition figure Lyubov Sobol argued that exile has constrained but not ended her political work against Vladimir Putin’s regime. In discussion with filmmaker Marianna Yarovskaya, producer Paul Gregory, Kathryn Stoner, and Larry Diamond, Sobol described a strategy built around reaching Russian audiences through blocked platforms, documenting repression and war support, pushing sanctions and visa cases abroad, and preparing for a democratic opening organized around institutions rather than revenge.

Hoover InstitutionJun 14, 202615 min read