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The Russian president might claim to be confronting hate speech, but he is drawing on the ideas of anti-Semitic extremists
Ethiopian women at a garment factory at the Hawassa Industrial Park in the country’s southern region.
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In democratic contexts, getting women into work empowers them. In autocracies like Ethiopia’s, this doesn’t hold. We found out why.
Russia has pioneered the concept of digital sovereignty and used it to severely restrict Russians’ access to the internet.
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For more than a decade, the Russian government has been putting teeth into its doctrine of ‘digital sovereignty’ by steadily increasing censorship of content and control over internet access.
The substance of the new bill will make it much more difficult for people like asylum seekers to claim their human rights in the UK.
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An expert on the Human Rights Act explains why the government’s approach has all the hallmarks of authoritarianism.
The new poster boy of left-wing South American politics?
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Colombians go to the polls on June 19 to elect a new president. The vote comes at a delicate time in the country’s politics.
Supporters of a Pakistani religious group burn an effigy depicting the former spokeswoman of India’s ruling party, Nupur Sharma, during a demonstration in Karachi, Pakistan.
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A scholar of Islam writes about how widespread authoritarianism in the Muslim world shapes governments’ foreign policy toward Muslim minorities abroad.
Politics is the Marcos family business.
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Bongbong Marcos is the projected winner of the Philippines election. That the son of a brutal dictator has won shows how wedded the country is to dynastic politics – and image manipulation.
Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump threw their weight behind industries that are driving climate change.
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A new book lays out the connections between industries and politicians that are both stalling action on climate change and diminishing democracy.
Students chanting slogans during a protest in Johannesburg in 2021.
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South Africans are increasingly dissatisfied with democracy because of its failure to address inequality.
Vladimir Putin receives Marine Le Pen at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 24, 2017.
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A victory of the far-right presidential candidate would be good news for Moscow, which has a long-standing history with Le Pen and her party.
A whites-only beach during apartheid in South Africa.
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Peddlers of dangerous ideas regarding the constitution should be reminded of what was done in the name of a legislative majority under apartheid.
To the nationalist right, Vladimir Putin embodies similar qualities to Donald Trump’s: determination, virility and attachment to traditional values.
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Former US president Donald Trump continues to wield an important influence within the Republican Party. Notwithstanding the war in Ukraine, he and his supporters continue to look up to Vladimir Putin.
Police officers cordon off a crime scene in Kampala, Uganda, in 2021.
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Uganda uses unpredictability to combine democratic institutions with authoritarian power.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on stage during a rally in Moscow on March 18, 2022.
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When Russia invaded Ukraine, its leader was immediately labeled “fascist” by Ukrainians and others. A political scientist explains why that label fits.
A carnival float featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin handling Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko like a puppet, is presented in the center of Cologne, western Germany, on February 28, 2022, where a “Freedom for Ukraine” demonstration took place instead of the traditional carnival Rose Monday procession.
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Caught between reliance on the Kremlin and strong antiwar sentiments at home, Alexander Lukashenko is treading a fine line on Russia’s war against Ukraine.
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Vladimir Putin’s popularity could come crumbling down if anti-war sentiment in Russia continues to grow.
Ukrainian soldiers take positions in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 25, 2022 after Russia pressed its invasion of Ukraine to the outskirts of the capital.
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Even if Vladimir Putin wins in Ukraine, he won’t be able to govern Ukrainians as he pleases. That’s because power is perceived very differently by Russians and Ukrainians.
A Donald Trump supporter flies a Trump flat a trucker convoy protest against COVID-19 restrictions in Toronto.
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With the apparent slide towards authoritarianism in the U.S., Canada must be ready and able to defend and champion our democracy.
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The turn towards neofascism is a natural result of so-called western liberal democracy.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (left) with his Zimbabwean counterpart, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in Harare in 2019.
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The ANC retains its determination to rule yet lacks the capacity to do so effectively. The only way out of the dilemma is its defeat in an election.