Protesters in Russia’s Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk, where rallies against President Vladimir Putin’s role in a regional political crisis have been going on for almost a month, have voiced… Read more »
#Lebanon civil society faces far stiffer opposition today than anything the embattled Syrians could mount in 2005, notes Shlomo Ben-Ami @ProSyn https://t.co/JEgTq79GFQ — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 11, 2020… Read more »
In response to Belarus’s latest stolen election, the democratic opposition has adopted three principles of protest, writes Sławomir Sierakowski, a Polish political analyst, and founding leader of Krytyka Polityczna (Political… Read more »
The world slid into a new crisis last week and for once COVID-19 was not to blame, notes a SecDev Special Dispatch. Over a 48 hour period the US government… Read more »
“The spread of COVID-19 is illuminating—all at once and in dramatic fashion—global challenges to the space for news, information, and public debate, with direct relevance for societies around the… Read more »
America today faces a potentially existential challenge to its national security as two great power adversaries, Russia and China, contest its post-Cold War dominion. How did we get here? asks… Read more »
Some voters live in a so-called populist bubble, where they hear nationalist and xenophobic messages, learn to distrust fact-based media and evidence-based science, and become receptive to conspiracy theories and… Read more »
Belarusan President Alexander Lukashenko won a landslide reelection according to preliminary results announced Monday that have already provoked protests and opposition accusations of vote-rigging. Police violently dispersed demonstrations overnight (above)… Read more »
Others on the sanctions list included Senators Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton & Pat Toomey & Rep Chris Smith, @NEDemocracy President Carl Gershman, @NDI‘s @AmbDMitchell @IRIglobal @DCTwining @hrw @KenRoth @abramowitz @freedomhouse… Read more »
Voters in Belarus are heading to the polls to elect their president in an unusually dramatic and hotly-contested vote. What was widely anticipated to be a smooth re-election ride for… Read more »