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The Trump government has been in power for a hundred days, but nothing is certain except uncertainty. The unpredictability of US-Russian relations looms large, especially in light of the unresolved question of Russia’s role in the Trump win. One of the important contexts for these questions has to do with free speech and technology. Democracies depend on openness,the exchange of ideas, freedom of speech, and the circulation of information. These principles can and should be tested and contested, and the arguments for these values and their successful embodiment in practice must be re-examined anew, especially when both the left and the right make new claims for inclusion. The circulation of information has never been free from constraints of various forms (including, for example, libel law), but digital technologies make the line between privacy and censorship, news and fake news more and more difficult to draw. What part should a scholarly journal such as Slavic Review play at this fraught time? We cannot offer up the minute developments, but we can provide perspectives, contexts, and reflections not otherwise available in the news media. This is the goal of the critical forum on Russian interference in US elections, one of the two forums in this special online only issue of the journal.

Abby Innes is Assistant Professor of European Political Economy at the European Institute, London School of Economics.Since 2016, she has served as the president of the Polish Studies Association.