The EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, said the bloc’s credibility on foreign policy “is at stake” after EU foreign ministers again failed to sanction Belarus, Politico reports (HT:CFR). A majority… Read more »
Belarusian security forces arbitrarily detained thousands of people and systematically subjected hundreds to torture and other ill- treatment in the days following the August 9, 2020 presidential election, Human Rights… Read more »
The Case for a New and Improved Magnitsky Law – Policy Magazine https://t.co/yxo4gFIwE8 — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 14, 2020 International perpetrators of genocide and torture, but not corruption, are… Read more »
Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich seeks to represent the will of protesters in Belarus, despite intimidation by Alexander Lukashenka’s regime, The New Yorker’s Masha Gessen writes. “He is going there to… Read more »
Authoritarianism is on the rise across the world, and it is posing a serious challenge to democracy and the post-World War II international system, says ACUS. In Central and Eastern… Read more »
For @NewYorker, I surveyed the world of Russian trolls, disinfo, and active measures: such threats exist, but to “exaggerate their prevalence and potency” risks providing “an overly convenient explanation… Read more »
Belarusian authorities detained opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova today while she attempted to enter Ukraine, according to state media. Ukraine and opposition activists disputed this version of events, saying Kolesnikova was… Read more »
The Belarusian Kids Are Alright by Sławomir Sierakowski @ProSyn https://t.co/xpM9fdGVXU — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 4, 2020 Europe must send a clear signal to the Kremlin that interference in… Read more »
‘A Dictatorship Is Being Created’: An Interview with Lech Wałęsa https://t.co/U6rrtpxhQL via @nybooks — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 3, 2020 The current democratic crisis demonstrates that “we are between… Read more »
A High-Stakes Standoff in Belarus https://t.co/MJZpJ8bbQg — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 2, 2020 A senior U.S. official said the United States and European Union were closely coordinating to find… Read more »