Nowhere in this article do we find an argument for why the peak activities of the movement have passed, and/or if they passed more than a year ago. Not that they haven’t, at least on the nonviolent front, but targeting an exact time frame for the momentum slowing would be a great addition.

This is debatable. The opposition succeeding or failing probably, in the long run, had little to do with the fate of Crimea or the nation as a whole. The Putin Doctrine’s aim of rebuilding the Soviet state would not have seen an ideological shift regardless of the opposition’s results. Their course of action surely stood the chance of a change, but the end goal would have remained the same.

Interesting that, with the article’s reliance on Chenoweth and Stephan’s works, none of the available literature produced by the duo was linked here. Their lengthy Foreign Affairs article “Drop Your Weapons: When and Why Civil Resistance Works” and the 2008 International Security article “Why Civil Resistance Works” both offer clear insight into the duo’s findings. The former, released in mid-2014, contains discussions of their thesis when applied to the current Ukraine situation. The latter is the brilliant study that provided the structural backbone for asserting that nonviolent campaigns have better chances of succeeding and lasting than their violent counterparts.

Drake = sadness goes without saying, but equating the emotion with The Weekend is pretty unwarranted. His music sometimes ventures to discuss the regrets felt by others, but when referring purely to the musician as the subject, he’s lacked the same vulnerability as his mentor.

Hip-hoperas, on the other hand, are nothing short of transcendental.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFosUj6A22c&list=PLFECE98856B07CD52

Commentary during the Tim Smyczek-Benjamin Becker first round match at Indian Wells revealed Fish being the current club champion at Bel Air Country Club. Last year, he was close to becoming the third man to compete at the U.S. Opens of both tennis and golf.