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...
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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...
In an ideal world and in an ideal democracy, the media plays a crucial role as watchdog. It provides checks and balances and is the voice of scrutiny. It holds the...
Alexander Lukashenko’s goose looks to be well and truly cooked. For the former chicken farmer who has run Belarus with a mixture of tough love and outright repression...
A growing number of leaders in emerging Europe have dropped even the pretence of playing by the rules of democracy. They openly attack democratic institutions and are...