Hong Kong issued arrest warrants for six prominent pro-democracy activists on Friday, including one American citizen — the first instance that the city’s controversial new national security law has been ...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday refused to back down from his suggestion earlier in the day that the November general election be postponed, repeating unsubstantiated predictions of widespread voter ...
A country has reached a constitutional crisis. The validity of its national election is in dispute. The party in power is almost entirely supported by native-born people with centuries-long heritage in ...
Turkey’s parliament on Wednesday passed a law handing the state sweeping powers to control content on social media, a move that rights groups warn will threaten free speech online. The ...
Veronika Melkozerova is a freelance journalist based in Ukraine. KYIV — Before Ukraine declared independence in 1991, statues of Vladimir Lenin were an inescapable part of the landscape. Some 5,500 monuments ...
Gergő Sáling is managing partner and senior editor of Direkt36, a non-profit investigative journalism center in Hungary and the former editor-in-chief of Hungarian news site Origo. BUDAPEST — The firing ...
European Commission Vice President Věra Jourová said she has “big concerns” about the situation at Hungarian news portal Index, where several journalists have resigned over fears that the outlet is ...
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed some of the fundamental problems with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s illiberal tools of governance, particularly the blurred distinction between a state of emergency and ...
Members of the European Parliament on Thursday called on EU leaders to move Warsaw a step closer to sanctions as they endorsed a report declaring rule of law has “seriously ...
Dimitar Bechev is a research fellow at the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a nonresident senior fellow ...
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