Authoritarianism

Boris Johnson’s government is partnering with an authoritarian regime in a legally questionable effort to make Britain’s asylum-seeker problem disappear.

The Serbian president’s anti-Western propaganda is coming back to haunt him.

Turkey’s president is seizing on Europe’s crisis to establish his own country’s independent power.

Of all the democracies that emerged in the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine has suffered the most from Russian interference.

Until the Tokayev regime shows remorse for its brutal crackdown, the country’s reforms won’t bring progress.

If everybody is responsible for countering digital authoritarianism, no one is responsible.

The meaning of Russia’s war in Ukraine is its own national weakness.

Central Asia is about to receive its first dynastic family.

A new regional alliance is undermining Bahrain’s stability at home.

The changes, certain to pass, will let Russia house nuclear weapons on Belarusian soil.

Big Tech ignored policies that enable disinformation and propaganda across the continent.

Autocrats are on the defensive as popular protests mount—but democracy’s fate depends on leaders delivering results.

The country’s widespread popular demonstrations transcended class, region, and politics—making them distinct from those in Belarus and Ukraine.

The pandemic-induced economic crisis has created the perfect conditions for backtracking.

A sudden wave of protests has spooked the Kremlin and precipitated an unprecedented intervention by Moscow and its allies.

Aleksandar Vucic’s authoritarian government is aiding Russian and Chinese propaganda and allowing genocide denialists to celebrate war criminals.

Did Erdogan break Turkish politics by empowering the presidency—or was it broken already?

By reconciling with an estranged uncle, Syria’s dictator may have definitively reestablished his power.