You may think I’m crazy for comparing what the Lukashenko administration is doing in Belarus with what the Trump administration is doing in the United States. Still, these actions are comparable in ...

Angelika Melnikova, the speaker for the exiled Belarusian opposition’s Coordination Council, has been missing since late ...

In today’s edition of The Capitals, read about the Five Star Movement leading a major protest in Rome against EU defense push, Poland failing to appoint a digital democracy watchdog ahead of election, ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) submits the following with respect to Belarus’s implementation of recommendations received during its 2020 Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This submission is neither a ...

According to early reports, millions nationwide participated in the Hands Off protests on April 5th, 2025. The protests were organized by a coalition of over 150 ...

A democracy is not destroyed in an instant. It lurches towards destruction through the relaxing and ignoring of social and ...

Belarus said it will deport a U.S. national accused of illegally traveling into the tightly controlled country in an empty ...

Turkey’s main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) organized the demonstration, the latest in a series of protests that ... in a presidential election currently scheduled ...

But on the street, hundreds of thousands of Turks believe otherwise, as the arrest has sparked nationwide protests ... İmamoğlu don't stop at their election to mayoral office and the ...

Protests are raging in Turkey after the arrest ... erode into “competitive authoritarianism” — a system in which elections are still meaningful, but leaders manipulate the rules to their ...

Thousands of Romanians gathered in the capital Bucharest on Wednesday to protest the December cancelation of a presidential election and the banning of its far-right frontrunner from standing for ...