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 »
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Why Russians and Belarusians are rejecting ‘backwards-looking autocrats’
Russia: who wanted Alexei Navalny dead? https://t.co/kcyoYvClkf via @financialtimes — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 31, 2020 Prominent Russian blogger Yegor Zhukov (below) was beaten near his Moscow home late… Read more »
UN urges DR Congo to protect Nobel laureate Mukwege
🇨🇩 #DRC: Deeply concerned over the death threats directed at Congolese human rights defender and Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege, @mbachelet is calling for swift action to investigate… Read more »
‘Hunting the Phoenix’: CCP pins legitimacy, survival on performance
The Chinese Communist Party has pinned its legitimacy, and hence its survival, on economic performance and making China strong internationally @WarOnTheRocks https://t.co/uJUko52nYc — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 27, 2020 The… 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 »
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 »
Belarus: Can people power topple Europe’s last dictator?
For 26 years, President Aleksandr Lukashenko has built a regime in his own eccentric, authoritarian image. Now he faces the greatest challenge yet to his hold on power in Belarus,… Read more »
Navalny – ‘who Putin fears most’ – exposed Russia’s kleptocracy
NEW: Yesterday, the world was shocked to learn that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is fighting for his life after apparently being poisoned. Here’s what he’s done to expose… Read more »
Lukashenko’s ‘Ceauşescu Moment’? Unthinkable change happening in Belarus
Did you miss this week’s discussion about the presidential election and protests in Belarus? (Ft @McFaul @AnnaGBusse @kath_stoner @FukuyamaFrancis). Watch on YouTube 👀: https://t.co/IMTgD2QC6x pic.twitter.com/ObR8llwY5B — FSI Stanford (@FSIStanford)… Read more »
Rift in democratic attitudes opening up across the world
Support for autocrats has grown in most parts of the world, but this effect is weakest in healthy democracies, according to data from the World Values Survey and the European… Read more »