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Lev Sugarman
Friday, March 29, 2019, 1:42 PM

The British Parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan for the third time—May had promise to resign if her deal passed—the Washington Post reports.

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The British Parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan for the third time—May had promise to resign if her deal passed—the Washington Post reports.

The White House is preparing a sanctions package against Russia’s for its 2018 nerve-agent attack targeting a former Russian intelligence officer in the U.K, according to Bloomberg.

The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State assessed that at least 1,257 civilians have been killed by over 34,000 coalition strikes from Aug. 2014 through Feb. 2019.

Russian attempts to influence Ukraine’s presidential election through social media circumvented new Facebook protections by paying Ukrainian citizens to grant Russian agents access to their accounts, the New York Times reports.

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Alina Polyakova reflected on Russian attempts to interfere in the Ukrainian elections and what it could mean for future Russian campaigns elsewhere.

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Lev Sugarman is an intern at Lawfare and a research intern at the Brookings Institution focusing on national security law. He is a senior in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

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