#Authoritarianism

Articles (12)

• 🇺🇸 Russian investigative journalist placed in pre-trial detention — 10/04/2026 [USA] Related: #Press Freedom, #Judicial Repression
• 🇺🇸 For Putin, Iran Is Something Close to Irreplaceable — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Vladimir Putin has spent years building a coalition of the discontented on the premise that authoritarian states can outlast Western pressure. Iran is his proof of concept.

  Related: #Geopolitics, #International Alliances
• 🇺🇸 A Newspaper Is Raided and a Rights Group Outlawed Amid Kremlin Crackdown — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  As Moscow throttles Russia’s few remaining independent voices, the authorities targeted two of the most prominent, one a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the other headed by a Nobel laureate.

  Related: #Press Freedom, #Human Rights
• 🇺🇸 Djibouti elections: Who’s running against Guelleh and what’s at stake? — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Long-ruling leader faces no real competition as he seeks a sixth term in the strategic Horn of Africa country.

  Related: #Geopolitics, #Elections
• 🇬🇧 ‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too</p><p>The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sourc...

  Related: #Democracy
• 🇺🇸 ‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director Says “Trump Is Moving A Lot Quicker Than Putin In His Early Years” – Oscars Backstage — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  After Mr. Nobody Against Putin won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature Film on Oscars night, director David Borenstein made some subtle parallels between Putin’s Russia and Trump’s America in hi...

  Related: #Political Commentary
• 🇺🇸 Mussolini Would Have Loved Trump’s Ballroom — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  Trump’s plans for Washington bring to mind what Mussolini did — and tried to do — to Rome.

  Related: #Political Comparison
• 🇺🇸 Don Lemon warns against authoritarianism, media consolidation at GLAAD awards — 07/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Media Freedom
• 🇺🇸 Who was Ayatollah Ali Khamenei? — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, confirmed dead Saturday after a joint U.S.-Israeli military strike on Tehran, was one of the world's longest-serving authoritarian rulers -- a cleric who held near-...

  Related: #Politics, #International Relations, #Middle East, #Leadership
• 🇬🇧 How South Korea's democracy rallied after the president tried to impose military rule — 22/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Yoon Suk Yeol's life sentence for insurrection "offers a rare example of democratic resilience", experts say.

  Related: #Democratic resilience, #Political polarization
• 🇬🇧 Authoritarians, strongmen and dictators: who is on Trump’s Board of Peace? — 19/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Representatives of repressive regimes from around the world are flying to Washington for the inaugural meeting of the body</p><p>A grouping of largely oppressive and authoritarian world leaders and...

  Related: #Peace diplomacy, #US foreign policy, #Human rights concerns
• 🇺🇸 Iran arrests reformists as crackdown on dissent widens, reports say — 09/02/2026 [USA]

  The head of the main reformist coalition, Azar Mansouri, is said to be among those held a month after security forces crushed nationwide protests.

  Related: #Politics, #Human Rights