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Alexei Navalny died in the “Polar Walk” prison in Siberia on February 16, 2024. As leader of the opposition, he and his party struggled to bring democracy to Russia. President Vladimir…
https://www.wfd.org/annual-lecture/2023-lecture-sviatlana-tsikhanouskaya Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is the leader of the Belarusian democratic opposition movement. She stood against Aliaksandr Lukashenka in the 2020 presidential elections, after her husband was barred from running, arrested, and…
One close Bolsonaro ally, lawmaker Carla Zambelli, in an apparent nod to the results, wrote on Twitter, “I PROMISE you, I will be the greatest opposition that Lula has ever…
Opposition International commented during the election that the challenges — and some threats — faced by the opposition parties needed to be taken more seriously. It is no longer good…
Michael Coppedge is a principle investigator at V-Dem. We discuss some of their finding about why democracies rise and why they fall — Read on democracyparadox.com/2022/06/28/michael-coppedge-on-why-democracies-emerge-why-they-decline-and-varieties-of-democracy-v-dem/
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