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    Navalny’s bravery has a message for GOP

    20 Jan 2021

    Alexei Navalny, Russia’s leading fighter for democracy, returned home this week, after recuperating in Germany from a Kremlin attempt to murder him by poison as he campaigned in Siberia.

    America’s image may not get healed quickly

    21 Jan 2021

    “What’s going on over there?” The question from a former NATO colleague in Europe was among the many texts and WhatsApp messages that lit up my phone Jan. 6 as I watched on live television the astonishing and frightening events unfolding

    Hong Kong activists appear in court over banned Tiananmen vigil

    05 Feb 2021

    Hong Kong traditionally holds the largest vigil in the world every year, although it was banned in 2020, with authorities giving the risk of spreading the coronavirus as the reason. The vigils have always been banned in mainland China.

    Five Hong Kong democracy protesters seek asylum in the US

    16 Jan 2021

    The Hong Kong Democracy Council (HKDC), a US-based group, said it had welcomed a group of young activists to America this week and their journey had been “arduous and perilous.”

    American dream

    25 Jan 2021

    Trump and his strong legion of followers have tasted sweet defeat. Biden and the dems have trumped albeit by the skin of their teeth. Whether US will be a force to reckon with or not is not as paramount at this juncture in time as the return of normalcy

    Urgent need for rebooting Indian democracy

    08 Feb 2021

    When Narendra Modi led the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance to power in 2014, India was ranked 27th in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index. In the 2020 index, released last week, it is at the 53rd place in the list

    America’s problem with political polarisation persists

    11 Feb 2021

    President Joe Biden had barely occupied the Oval Office long enough to arrange his desk and hang pictures, but voters already held firm opinions about his job performance. That’s how polarised Americans are. In California, 89% of Democrats approved

    The Myanmar coup is more proof that democracy is under threat — here’s what the free world must do

    14 Feb 2021

    Democracy and freedom are increasingly on the backfoot around the world. This year began with the arrest of 55 pro-democracy politicians and activists in Hong Kong,

    Two plead guilty as leading Hong Kong activists go on trial

    16 Feb 2021

    The two were among nine prominent activists whose trial got under way in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory. The nine were arrested with several others in April last year in what was seen as a move to crack down on dissent.

    Myanmar crisis

    23 Feb 2021

    This refers to the report, “Protestors defiant as strike shuts businesses in Myanmar” (Feb. 23, Gulf Today). Myanmar had been experiencing a moderate democracy and peace until recently since 2015 parliament elections where the National

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