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Montenegrin president Milo Djukanović. Photo credit: http://www.predsjednik.me/
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Nicaraguan police present captured "terrorists."
September 11, 2018The regime has used deadly violence, but it’s the protesters who are punished as terrorists.
Leader of the Sweden Democrats Jimmie Åkesson. Credit: Per Pettersson, Flickr/Creative Commons.
September 10, 2018Sheri Berman of Columbia University explains the background and implications of the election results.
September 3, 2018A Myanmar court sentenced two Reuters reporters to seven years imprisonment for documenting mass killings by soldiers and civilian mobs in Rakhine State.
- September 5, 2018
Unlike authoritarian-minded counterparts in the region, Romanian leaders are perverting justice mainly to save their own skins.
Sandro Weltin/©Council of Europe
September 4, 2018Media polarization both reflects and exacerbates the country’s political and ethnic divides.
August 30, 2018A review of the forces at work in Crimea, and why the international community must keep up its pressure on Moscow.
