by Victoria Hill | Mar 27, 2018 | American University
March 25th marked the 100th anniversary of Belarusian People’s Republic. It was a short-lived political entity, only in existence from 1918 to 1919, though a government-in-exile still remains. For opponents of Belarus’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, this...
by Marissa Kelly | Mar 26, 2018 | Ohio State University
Only a year after massive, week-long demonstrations—the likes of which had not been seen in Romania since the demonstrations leading up to the fall of the Communism—Romanians took to the streets again. A year ago in January, 2017, the streets of Bucharest were filled...
by Joseph Glandorf | Mar 24, 2018 | Ohio State University
On March 3, police in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, forcibly dismantled a camp of anticorruption protesters outside the Ukrainian Parliament, resulting in a violent clash, about 20 injuries, and over 100 detainments. It was the latest in a long string of crises for a...
by Aaron Riggins | Mar 23, 2018 | Ohio State University
Georgia is no stranger to authoritarianism. A former soviet republic, the country has been staving off both domestic and foreign attempts to subvert its democracy for decades. In the last twenty years alone, Georgians fought against widespread corruption, Russian...
by Abby Nutter | Mar 22, 2018 | Ohio State University
By many quantitative measures, Finnish democracy is in seemingly great shape. But while this European nation outwardly sets inspirational international standards for democracy, actions by the executive branch of the Finnish government over the past five years have...
