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How to ensure post-Covid democratic resilience

DemDigest    August 18, 2020 August 18, 2020   

There are five main challenges for democracies after coronavirus, analysts Célia Belin and Giovanna De Maio write in a new Brookings analysis: protecting the safety and integrity of elections, finding the right… Read more »

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Analysis, Civil Society, coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy Assistance and Promotion, democratic resilience    #defenddemocracy, Brookings

Hong Kong crackdown ‘more menacing by the day’

DemDigest    August 17, 2020 August 17, 2020   

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has resigned from an honorary fellowship at a college at Britain’s Cambridge University after it questioned her commitment to the protection of human rights… Read more »

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Analysis, China, Communist regimes, Hong Kong   

Poland’s ‘populistainment’: Spectators at the dismantling of democracy

DemDigest    August 17, 2020 August 17, 2020   

The political and ideological project being implemented by Poland’s populist governing party, Law and Justice (PiS), has a long way to run. The re-election of the party’s candidate Andrzej Duda to… Read more »

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Analysis, democratic retrenchment, Europe, Poland    #populism #poland #polishelection #NEDemocracy #JoDemocracy, Poland

CCP ideology reveals ‘darker view’ of China’s global ambitions

DemDigest    August 17, 2020 August 17, 2020   

  What role does ideology play within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)? @CSISFreeman is releasing a series of previously untranslated documents and speeches from within the Chinese Communist Party to… Read more »

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Analysis, Authoritarianism, China   

Will global summit of democracies promote renewal?

DemDigest    August 17, 2020 August 17, 2020   

  The Decline of the West—New and Improved https://t.co/RTXuiZkJsI via @aminterest — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 17, 2020 While National Endowment for Democracy board member Nadia Schadlow recently echoed calls… Read more »

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‘Lukashenko era is over’? Kremlin deploys troops to Belarus border

DemDigest    August 17, 2020 August 17, 2020   

  Just when you think footage from Belarus can’t get more amazing, stuff like this happens: https://t.co/Tzbqd20cxn — Casey Michel 🇰🇿 (@cjcmichel) August 17, 2020 Putin Doesn’t Want to Intervene… Read more »

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Analysis, Authoritarianism, Belarus, Eurasia, Russia   

Belarus: ‘The end is nigh’ for Lukashenko?

DemDigest    August 14, 2020 August 14, 2020   

  While the Belarusian security apparatus has stepped up its violence against peaceful protesters, the demonstrations themselves have evolved to maintain the moral high ground. There is no longer any… Read more »

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Analysis, Authoritarianism, Belarus, Europe    #SławomirSierakowski, Belarus

U.S. lawmakers warn against undermining anti-censorship efforts

DemDigest    August 14, 2020 August 14, 2020   

Members of Congress are expressing concern over developments at the U.S. Agency for Global Media which threaten to cripple anti-censorship and surveillance tools, normally funded by the $700 million agency… Read more »

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Authoritarianism, Media    #OpenTechnologyFund

‘Putin Chef’s Kisses of Death’: Russia’s shadow army exposed

DemDigest    August 14, 2020 August 14, 2020   

In the 1st part of an ongoing series of investigations into Yevgeny Prigozhin, his troll empire, and his Wagner private military company (PMC), we reveal the state-run nature of Wagner,… Read more »

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How to stand up to China’s influence operations

DemDigest    August 14, 2020 August 14, 2020   

  We stand together with @Int_IDEA and other global democracy organizations to express our solidarity with the people of #HongKong, who are valiantly defending rights that are part of our… Read more »

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Analysis, Authoritarianism, China, influence operations, INFORMATION WARFARE   

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