Russia
May 17, 2016
Crackdowns on Citizen Election Monitors Reveal Authoritarian Fear
Guest blog post by Patrick Merloe, contributing author to the edited volume, Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy.Nonpartisan election monitoring, spanning over 100 countries, embodies a movement of millions...
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April 13, 2016
Coercive Diplomacy Injects Adrenaline into Russia’s Decaying Regime
Guest post by Lilia Shevtsova, contributing author to the edited volume, Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy. Among the many challenges the West is facing, the resurgence of an authoritarian...
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April 7, 2016
Russia Reaps Rewards from the Rise of Europe’s Far Right
Across Europe, far-right political parties are on the march, write Alina Polyakova and Anton Shekhovtsov in a new issue brief from the Atlantic Council. But Europe’s far-right parties have also...
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January 28, 2016
Freedom in the World: What’s Behind the Decade of Decline?
Guest post by Arch Puddington. According to Freedom in the World, a report issued annually by Freedom House, global democracy has experienced a decade of decline. This represents far-and-away the most...
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December 8, 2015
Increasingly Under Control: Five Years of Decline in Freedom on the Net
Frequent readers of this blog will not be surprised that authoritarian regimes are investing heavily in methods of obstructing and manipulating online speech. These investments have paid dividends: in each...
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December 3, 2015
Tailor-Made Propaganda, Direct from Russia
Guest post by Robert Orttung. In 2015, Forbes named Russian President Vladimir Putin the most powerful man in the world for the third year in a row. This selection was made...
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