Will Putin make it to 2024?
Russia’s prime minister will visit Belarus today, Reuters reports (HT:CFR) and Belarus’s defense minister will be in Moscow tomorrow as the two countries step up diplomacy in the face of continued… Read more »
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‘High-Stakes Standoff’: U.S. faces hurdles in ‘nudging’ Belarus toward democracy
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 »
Why the Kremlin cannot speak of Navalny’s threat
Even unconscious, Alexei Navalny has managed to needle the Kremlin and its allies. His organization, the Anti-Corruption Foundation, released a video on Monday that featured footage of Mr. Navalny denouncing… Read more »
Wake-Up Call: Why COVID exposed West’s weakness – and how to fix it
The covid-19 pandemic “is a wake-up call…not just as a public-health disaster, but a stress test of Western government,” John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge contend in The Wake-Up Call:… Read more »
Mali: Beware the ‘popular’ coup
ECOWAS to Send Team to Mali As Opposition Plans Rally https://t.co/iee2tIDHhi via @allafrica — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 31, 2020 Thousands of cheering Malians came out onto the streets… Read more »
Belarus ‘on the edge’: How will the West respond?
Detentions have started at the Independence Square. The entrance to the Red Church is blocked. About 1000 protesters. A lot of police. pic.twitter.com/67fj1ih4B7 — Franak Viačorka (@franakviacorka) August 27,… Read more »
The terrible déjà vu of the Navalny poisoning
I’m an Activist in Russia. I Can’t Believe What My Life Has Become. https://t.co/bIwek8tZJV — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 27, 2020 The poisoning of my friend Aleksei Navalny… Read more »
Saving liberal democracy from China’s non-existential threat
Saving Liberal Democracy by Chris Patten @ProSyn https://t.co/eNHd0KpH2E — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 26, 2020 Hong Kong police have been accused of re-writing history over their account of an attack… Read more »
Belarus reborn: But ‘unprecedented’ movement faces uphill battle
In Minsk today Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich was called in for questioning, as the authorities try to increase the pressure on their opponents. Camera @AntonChicherov Producer @LizaVereykina #Belarus @BBCNews… Read more »
Corruption has replaced ideology as the glue that binds kleptocratic regimes
Authoritarian regimes exploit 7 legal loopholes to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars into U.S. and European elections. In a new report, @JoshRudes and Thomas Morley explain what democracies… Read more »