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 »
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 »
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 »
John Hume was a political giant whose vision created the Northern Ireland that exists today. But he was a politician, not a saint, and should be remembered as such,… Read more »
Some 60,000 people joined an opposition rally in Belarus, where presidential candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya said she was “tired of being afraid” and wanted to bring about peaceful change in the… Read more »
Police in Belarus have arbitrarily arrested journalists, bloggers, and political activists ahead of the August 9, 2020 presidential election and pressed charges against two potential candidates, Human Rights Watch said… Read more »
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried. The maxim, made famous by Winston Churchill, was actually expressed six months earlier by… Read more »
.@NDI #Kosovo public opinion research on Dialogue with Serbia pic.twitter.com/DEisvoA6tL — Robert Benjamin (@rbenjamin_ndi) July 24, 2020 Kosovo’s foreign minister has asked Apple to correct her country’s borders in… Read more »
Lessons from the Polish Opposition by Jacek Rostowski @ProSyn https://t.co/gqWHgarDUK — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 13, 2020 Although Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski did not come out on top… Read more »
My latest for @BrookingsFP argues that tomorrow’s 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide should spur a recommitment to human rights as a key element of U.S. foreign policy. Read it… Read more »