US-Russian relations will remain strained as long as Washington continues to criticize the country’s human rights record, says a close ally of President Vladimir Putin.
The US violated “a tacit understanding” to refrain from publicly criticizing Russia’s democratic regression, undermining …
Are the West’s democracies prepared to challenge what one analyst calls “Eurasia’s new authoritarian architecture”?
“For years now, the United States and its allies in Europe and Asia have been talking about the importance of common efforts to promote human …
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is actively considering membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a group that’s been described as an authoritarian international for Eurasia’s illiberal regimes, according to Eurasia Daily Monitor analyst Emrullah Uslu:
When asked to clarify …
“In another apparent tit for tat provoked by the Magnitsky Act, Russia said Wednesday that it was withdrawing from an agreement that provided help from the United States in fighting narcotics and human trafficking and enhancing the rule of law,” …
A Ukrainian court has sentenced former police chief Olexiy Pukach to life imprisonment for murdering journalist Georgy Gongadze (left) in 2000, “a crime which rocked the country,” the BBC reports:
Pukach confessed but said he had acted on the …
Russia today announced further curbs on civil society groups, as a leading analyst recommends “information warfare” as the most effective response to the Kremlin’s growing authoritarianism at home and abroad.
“Russia’s Justice Ministry is proposing legislation to extend rules …
Scores of pro-democracy activists were detained and at least five sentenced to prison after a police crackdown on a peaceful protest in Azerbaijan on Saturday.
“Two prominent journalists, Emin Milli and Khadija Ismayilova, were among up to 100 people detained …
“The West should employ differing strategies in dealing with each of the two Russias, recognizing that ‘patriotic’ forces are in power for now, but that they are increasingly alienating the urbanized and educated,” according to Denis Corboy, a former European …
The Obama administration has pulled out of a joint working group on civil society with Russia to protest the Kremlin’s crackdown on critics.
The Civil Society Working Group was a key component of the administration’s “reset” policy with Moscow, …
Georgia’s new government “could still go the way of …… previous ones,” The Economist cautions, noting that the Caucasian republic “needs more effective checks on state power than it has had in previous years, in the form of political …