by Josephine Hale | Feb 13, 2025 | Boston University
In October 2024, mass protests erupted across the nation of Georgia following the release of highly contested election results that extended the power of the ruling Georgian Dream party. Demonstrators numbering in the thousands flooded the streets, rejecting what they...
by Cassandra Fitts | Feb 12, 2025 | Boston University
Former Soviet satellite states that were once poster children for democratization following the decline of European communism have been making drastic pivots towards autocracy in recent years. In 1989 following the fall of the USSR, previously Soviet-occupied Hungary,...
by Aiselyn Anaya-Hall | Jul 27, 2023 | Arizona State University
Co-Authored by Aiselyn Anaya-Hall and John Kaye Since long before the launch of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the world, and particularly the independent states of the former Soviet Union, have been concerned about invasive and disruptive...
by Kami Arabian | Aug 24, 2022 | Dartmouth College
In 2018, many in the West predicted that the resignation of Armenia’s pro-Moscow autocrat Serzh Sargsyan and election of self-proclaimed reformist Nikol Pashinyan would finally lead to democratic consolidation. Today, however, this hope appears unjustified. Since his...
by SIDALCICEK19@KU.EDU.TR | Jun 12, 2022 | Koç University
‘‘An authoritarian style of rule is a characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it’’. This brave but problematic statement was made 19 years ago by the Belarusian President Alexandar Lukaschenka back in 2003 (BBC, 2020). Maybe this was an early signal of how...
