In August 2020, Belarus witnessed its most controversial election yet, leading to widespread protests and international condemnation. Four years on, the landscape...
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Landlocked Tajikistan recently featured prominently in two key reports—one highlighting its stellar growth and another naming it as one of the least democratic countries...
Unless democracies act urgently and consistently to uphold their own interests and values, more territory will be lost to dictatorship and repression. The fate of...
Only a sustained push for democratic progress across Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia will reverse the damage of the past two decades and deliver a free and...
Despite a united opposition, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán looks increasingly likely to win a new term in office. For Hungary’s much-hyped united opposition...
The regime in Moscow has been using social media to spread misinformation and to create divisions throughout Europe for years. However, the recent invasion of Ukraine...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
There are fewer democracies in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia than at any point in the past 26 years, according to a new report from human rights watchdog...
There has been a worrying fall in the level of trust that Serbian citizens have in the democratic process, and its ability to bring about change. Serbia’s...
Eastern Europe is home to several authoritarian leaders who run repressive regimes: labeling Alexander Lukashenko as “Europe’s last dictator” is lazy, simplistic, and...
Freedom in the World 2021, published by US-based research and advocacy group Freedom House, finds that fewer than a fifth of the world’s people now live in fully free...
Covid-19 has allowed governments with authoritarian tendencies to increase their control over the internet. The latest Freedom on the Net report, published by human...
