Imprisoned Belarus activist resurfaces after no ... - Associated Press News
1 day ago · TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Imprisoned Belarusian opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova has resurfaced after more than 20 months without any communication with relatives or friends and met with her father, a human rights group said Tuesday. Kolesnikova, one of the most popular and charismatic figures who helped lead protests of Belarus ...
Thousands rally outside Georgian parliament to ... - Associated Press News
2 days ago · TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Thousands of opposition supporters rallied Monday in Georgia’s capital in continuing protests against the ruling party’s declared victory in the Oct. 26 parliamentary election amid allegations that Russia helped rig the vote. The protesters waved Georgian and European Union flags and gathered outside the Georgian ...
Thousands march in far-right rally to mark Poland's Independence …
2 days ago · 1 of 9. Tens of thousands of Poles including nationalist opposition chiefs walked through Warsaw on Monday in an annual Independence Day event held by the far right, some shooting red flares and ...
Georgia’s pro-EU opposition cries foul as ruling party claims
Oct 26, 2024 · CNN — Georgia’s pro-Western opposition parties have refused to accept results showing victory for the increasingly authoritarian ruling party, after a crucial parliamentary election seen as a...
How Putin's Russia evolved from tolerating to suppressing dissent | AP News
Mar 6, 2024 · Over the last decade, Vladimir Putin’s Russia evolved from a country that tolerates at least some dissent to one that ruthlessly suppresses it. Arrests, trials and long prison terms — once rare — are commonplace. Navalny, a popular opposition figure, died in a remote Arctic prison on Feb. 16, 2024.
What’s happening in Venezuela - protests, election uncertainty ... - CNN
Jul 30, 2024 · Venezuela’s opposition and multiple Latin American leaders have refused to recognize Maduro’s victory in the July 28 vote, which was announced by the country’s electoral authority - a body ...
Navalny joins list of dead Putin critics as Kremlin stamps ... - NBC News
Feb 16, 2024 · The death of Alexei Navalny deals a severe blow to Russia’s opposition, which President Vladimir Putin has ruthlessly silenced. Here are some of the Kremlin critics who have died, been jailed or...
Can Freed Russian Dissidents Help Energize Opposition …
Aug. 6, 2024. Among Russians who oppose Vladimir V. Putin and his brutal Ukraine invasion, hopes are high that the Russian dissidents freed last week as part of a prisoner exchange with the West...
Zelenskyy has consolidated Ukraine's TV outlets and dissolved rival ...
Jul 8, 2022 · President Zelenskyy has consolidated all TV platforms in Ukraine into one state broadcast and restricted political rivals. Political opposition fears such civil liberty constraints could continue.
As Russia holds elections, Putin opposition fights to ... - ABC News
Mar 15, 2024 · Putin faces no real challengers, with anti-war candidates blocked from the ballot and virtually all leading opposition figures either in jail, exile or dead.