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Taiwan's legislature passed a set of bills expanding its power over the executive branch after two weeks of protests and 40 hours of parliamentary chaos.

Washington, DC – The International Republican Institute (IRI) honored Catholic Bishop Rolando José Álvarez Lagos of Nicaragua with its John S. McCain

Test yourself on the week of April 20: A high-level Israeli official resigns, Germany arrests alleged spies, and Argentina achieves an economic milestone.

In response to the death of Russian democratic opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, who died in Russian custody while unjustly incarcerated, Freedom House joins partners in requesting the Biden Administration to accelerate efforts to free imprisoned Russian democracy advocate, Vladimir Kara-Murza. The letter is included below and can be read here.

In 2023, Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison in Russia on bogus charges for his criticism of Putin's repressive government and the Kremlin's ongoing war against Ukraine.

The neoconservative crusade against “autocracy” is on display in the pages of National Review, where Corban Teague of the McCain Institute’s Human Rights & Freedom Program and Daniel Twining of

Now that the country has got its new government, despite the Western scrutiny and the Eastern support, the post-electoral challenges are about to begin

Looking ahead necessarily means factoring in the country’s contradictions and working much harder on the problem areas

Daniel Twining is president of the International Republican Institute, a democracy assistance organization based in Washington, and a member of the Reagan…

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