Is the world standing on the threshold of a democratic comeback? After years of relentless bad news, the latest annual global report on the health of democracy offers hope, according… Read more »
China’s ruling Communist Party (CCP) government, concentrates local decision-making power in Tibet in the hands of party officials who deny fundamental rights to residents of both Han Chinese and Tibetan… Read more »
“We’ve seen this film before and it doesn’t end well” was the slogan on one placard as protesters in Georgia held more demonstrations over a ‘Kremlin-inspired’ law requiring externally-funded NGOs… Read more »
While Iran’s civil unrest has diminished, the economic hardship for millions of Iranians continues to deteriorate, The Financial Times reports: The rial has lost more than a third of its… Read more »
Taiwan is a democracy, so its future lies in its people’s hands. But that makes it vulnerable to authoritarian exploitation, The Economist observes. China is already promoting defeatist and divisive… Read more »
Fistfights broke out among Georgian lawmakers on Monday as a parliamentary committee debated a bill on “foreign agents” which critics say is modelled on draconian legislation in neighboring Russia, Reuters… Read more »
The U.S. has imposed sanctions and visa restrictions on five Russian officials and an expert witness involved in the incarceration of opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who has been imprisoned in… Read more »
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s former adviser and Soviet-era dissident Gleb Pavlovsky (above) died on Monday at the age of 71 after a prolonged illness, Reuters reports. An influential figure in… Read more »
Opposition parties today walked out of the venue where results from Nigeria’s tightly contested presidential elections are being announced, the BBC reports: The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and… Read more »
A Russian victory in Ukraine would frog-march the world down a bleak path where might is right and frontiers are drawn by violence. It may hasten the next, even worse,… Read more »