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Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is running for a fifth term in office this week, has over the past two decades built up a system of domestic repression and confrontation with the West that is almost certain to guarantee his re-election. Putin won his first presidential election in March 2000 and a second term in 2004.
The Hindu nationalists are not only invisiblizing the religion and cultural heritage of minorities in social space, they are also homogenizing Hindu culture by imposing cultural practices of Hindu upper caste elite on the entire community.
A project that addresses the severe impacts of climate change on the Netherlands's river region is included in Dezeen's latest school show.
North Korea mentions dissenting votes in recent elections, but analysts view it as an attempt to project normalcy rather than signal increased rights
Authoritarians, in China and elsewhere, normally have preferred to dress their authoritarianism up in pretty clothes. Lenin called the version of dictatorship he invented in 1921 “democratic centralism,” but it became clear, especially after Stalin and Mao inherited the system, that centralism, not democracy, was the point. More recent examples of prettifying include “The