As Yevgeny Prigozhin marched on Moscow, the Kremlin was also concerned about stopping the mutiny from spreading across the vast foreign empire that his private military organization, the Wagner Group, ...
Throughout most of the ongoing war in Ukraine, a truism has held across most of the American political spectrum, from left to right, about the second-order effects of the conflict’s ...
On a quiet visit to Europe last week, Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu met several politicians on the continent to discuss China’s recent attempts to intimidate and coerce his government. ...
BELGRADE, Serbia—On a rainy Saturday evening in late May, the city center of Serbia’s capital was transformed into a sea of umbrellas. Amid the crowd, two protesters propped up a ...
The government of Pakistan has taken a big step in its march toward autocracy by throwing a blanket media ban over former Prime Minister Imran Khan, its latest attempt to ...
One consequence of the nationwide protests in Iran sparked by the tragic death of Mahsa Amini in police custody in September 2022 has been the widely celebrated retreat of the ...
“I came of age as the borders of the Soviet Union collapsed and Russia embraced the West,” historian Anastasia Edel wrote in March. “Back then, it seemed that after a ...
Why are elections so tight almost everywhere? It’s a metaphysical mystery of our time. This week’s election in which Turkey’s autocrat was reelected by a wafer-thin majority is only the ...
U.S. President Joe Biden has said the world is at an “inflection point” in a “battle between democracy and autocracy.” Biden maintains that the United States’ free-market, democratic system can ...
ISTANBUL—A light morning drizzle kept Istanbul’s streets fairly empty, but Erdogan Bey decided to venture out anyway, wearing sunglasses and an oversized pinstriped suit. He sat down for a glass ...
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