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 »
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 »
Akram Keram, a program officer on China at the National Endowment for Democracy, testified on Hong Kong’s struggle for democracy before the Canadian House of Commons Special Committee on… Read more »
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 »
تجمعُ المهنيّين السودانيين في مسلك غير مقبول قامت رئاسة مجلس الوزراء بإرسال أحد موظفيها لاستقبال مواكب جرد الحساب معتذرًا بانشغال رئيس الوزراء، وحين عبّر الثوار عن رفضهم للتصرف تدخلت… Read more »
Belarus’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, facing growing nationwide protests, said he was ready to share power, but only on his own terms, as the main opposition leader said she was ready to… Read more »
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 »
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 »
Brotherly people…? Should we then expect “fraternal assistance” from the Kremlin to Belarus? Like the fraternal assistance the Soviet Union provided to Czechoslovakia in 1968? https://t.co/0gSdG5Ll6q — Daniel Fried… Read more »
The Tunisian Crisis and Migrations: Myths and Reality https://t.co/MVy9tgKx8X — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 13, 2020 A Tunisian populist politician who aligns herself with an ousted dictator has been… Read more »