The live TV broadcast of 20,000 martial arts fans booing Vladimir Putin illuminates key features of Russia’s media landscape, which are particularly relevant for upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, according to Christopher Walker and Robert Orttung. Management of news …

If the Muslim Brotherhood’s performance in Egypt’s election demonstrates that Islamists are “moving from opposition to power,” it also highlights the failure of the Facebook liberals and Tahrir Square protesters to make the same transition.

The poll confirms …

Interim results from Egypt’s first free elections since 1952 give the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice party a clear lead, with some party officials claiming 50% of the vote. Party leaders declared their intention to form a coalition with secular …

Today’s storming of the British Embassy in Tehran by hard-line Basiji militants (above) signals an escalation of the Islamic Republic’s conflict with the West.

“The incident raises the stakes to the point of very ill-disguised confrontation between Iran and one …

The Kremlin has launched a dirty tricks campaign against Russia’s only independent elections monitor, just days before voters head to the polls to elect the State Duma.

In a televised address last weekend to the ruling United Russia party, premier …

“Malaysian lawmakers approved a ban on street protests” today, AP reports, “after opposition legislators boycotted the vote and activists criticized the ban as repressive and a threat to freedom of assembly”:

Prime Minister Najib Razak’s ruling coalition says the …

With moderates in Bahrain’s government and opposition apparently being outflanked by more hard-line elements, the prospects for dialogue and reconciliation arising from the Independent Commission of Inquiry are fading, warns Hussein Ibish in this guest post.

The report by the …

Vote counting is under way in the Democratic Republic of Congo after elections marred by confusion, arson, and violence. Millions of voters participated in the country’s second postwar election despite widespread violence, including the killing of political rivals and …

Millions of Egyptians “swarmed to the polls” today to vote in the first election since the Jasmine protests that ended Hosni Mubarak’s autocratic rule.

“So far, it is the best election that Egypt has witnessed in the last …

Morocco’s Justice and Development Party (PJD) has emerged as the winner of the weekend’s parliamentary elections after securing 107 seats in the 395-seat assembly. The result is the latest indication sign that Islamist parties are emerging as the prime beneficiaries …