On September 19, Russia held its parliamentary elections. Largely considered neither free nor fair, the results showed that the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s party, United Russia, retained a supermajority in the parliament. While Moscow’s authoritarian tendencies...
Over the last two weeks, protests against Taliban rule have broken out across major cities in Afghanistan, from Herat to Kabul, over women’s rights to work, treatment of minorities, and the formation of a non-inclusive, Taliban dominated government,. Thus far, the...
On June 18, 2021, Ebrahim Raisi, the former judiciary chief widely accused of human rights abuses, was elected president of Iran after a controversial election marred by disqualifications and accusations of being a sham. A noted principlist, Raisi’s administration is...
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