New legal amendments giving the Turkish authorities broad powers to block websites and to amass users’ internet activity data should be overturned, Human Rights Watch said today. The new measures… Read more »
To mark today’s International Day of Democracy, the National Democratic Institute is helping to organize around issues of legislative openness. The Global Legislative Openness Week (GLOW) is being organized by… Read more »
The month-long dharnas (sit-in) in the nerve centre of Pakistan’s federal capital can easily be described as the ‘Disneyland of Pakistani dystopia,’ notes a prominent observer. Shocking is the fact… Read more »
Kiev has lost eastern Ukraine to Russia, says a leading analyst. The turning point came on August 27, as the first direct invasion of Ukraine by Russian regulars broke the… Read more »
The NATO summit meeting last week in Wales was dominated by Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea. The rift with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was… Read more »
Since the onset of the Arab Spring, the authorities in Saudi Arabia have pursued an increasingly repressive course, seeking to maintain the status quo in an environment where expectations are… Read more »
The invention of Novorossiya is a sign of Russia’s domestic system of information manipulation going global, says Peter Pomerantsev. Today’s Russia has been shaped by political technologists—the viziers of the… Read more »