US swing toward autocracy doesn’t have to be permanent – but swinging back to democracy requires vigilance, stamina and elections
The US is swinging like a pendulum between more autocratic and more democratic forms of government. How long will this ...
How US foreign aid cuts are threatening independent media in former Soviet states
But the purge of US foreign aid programmes will also affect Ukraine and other former Soviet countries in more insidious ways.
15 Countries That Were Once Part of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. Unfortunately, the era of centralized ...
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Authoritarian leader of Belarus is sworn for a 7th term and tells his critics ‘you have no future’
TALLINN, Estonia — Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko was sworn in Tuesday to a seventh term, and he mocked those who derided him as “Europe’s last dictator” by saying his country ...
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Ukraine war latest: US-Russian officials holding talks in Saudi Arabia - after Trump's envoy talks up Putin 'friendship' and hits out at Starmer
Russian and US officials are holding talks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this morning as efforts to end the Ukraine war continue. Meanwhile, Kyiv has woken up after a third consecutive night of strikes ...
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Sharia politics at Notre Dame
I am appalled to witness the rise of a neo-Catholicism at odds with American democracy and diversity. In particular, the Catholic hierarchy’s moral condemnation of gay Americans who seek the ...
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The ‘apartheid as a crime against humanity’ question revisited
My answer would be: the 'democratic centralism' of societies like the USSR and Cuba. Today this type of democracy is no longer regarded as a democracy at all. The human rights of Cuba and the USSR ...