America today faces a potentially existential challenge to its national security as two great power adversaries, Russia and China, contest its post-Cold War dominion. How did we get here? asks… Read more »
Some voters live in a so-called populist bubble, where they hear nationalist and xenophobic messages, learn to distrust fact-based media and evidence-based science, and become receptive to conspiracy theories and… Read more »
Belarusan President Alexander Lukashenko won a landslide reelection according to preliminary results announced Monday that have already provoked protests and opposition accusations of vote-rigging. Police violently dispersed demonstrations overnight (above)… Read more »
Others on the sanctions list included Senators Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton & Pat Toomey & Rep Chris Smith, @NEDemocracy President Carl Gershman, @NDI‘s @AmbDMitchell @IRIglobal @DCTwining @hrw @KenRoth @abramowitz @freedomhouse… Read more »
What kind of government leaves a mountain of explosive chemicals lying around unsafely for the better part of a decade? https://t.co/n8tQXZ0iwD — The Economist (@TheEconomist) August 7, 2020 After… Read more »
Voters in Belarus are heading to the polls to elect their president in an unusually dramatic and hotly-contested vote. What was widely anticipated to be a smooth re-election ride for… Read more »
“First they came for the journalists. We don’t know what happened after that,” says journalist Maria Ressa, quoting a solemn line from a Philippine newspaper, inspired by Martin Niemöller’s postwar poem… Read more »
Kyiv City Council has confirmed plans to name a street in the Ukrainian capital “Gareth Jones Lane” in honor of the British journalist whose courageous reporting helped expose Stalin’s genocidal… Read more »
According to pro-democracy institutions, authoritarianism was on the rise globally even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, PBS reports. But experts say the distraction of the crisis has allowed some leaders… Read more »
The unrest in Khabarovsk amounts to a “revolution of dignity” created not by civil society, but by Russia’s authorities, says a prominent analyst. The current protests have sparked recent small… Read more »