Think Tank Quickies (#442)

• Andrey Batlistsky is leaving his position at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, saying he hopes the institute "will provide [the] government and people of Russia unbiased analysis."
  
• Former US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro joins Atlantic Council as a distinguished fellow.
• South Korea's President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol sending delegation to US to meet with think tanks, others.
  
• BlackRock Investment Institute is the Wall Street firm's "global think tank."
• New Third Way report: "Red State Murder Problem."
• Think tank and college rankings are a fool's game: Columbia ranked No. 2, but professor is dubious.
  
• Rebecca Bill Chavez, an Obama alum, will be new president and CEO of the Inter-American Dialogue.
• Legal docs tie Quincy Institute scholar Amir Handjani to a spy operation targeting critics of a UAE monarch.
  
• Meet the Socialism Research Center (run by Justin Haskins) at the Heartland Institute.
• New resource for those wanting to build a think tank.