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Central Asia: Potemkin Village of Turkmenistan ½

Central Asia: Potemkin Village of Turkmenistan ½ At the beginning of November 2020, the Turkmen authoritarian president Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow unveiled huge golden dog statue in the capital city of Ashgabat, adding another golden sculpture into the huge collection across the city. All of that, despite the country being on the...

Protests Against the Abortion Ban in Poland

"This is about freedom and dignity of people" Clementine Sukhanova (representative of the leadership of the All-Polish strike) The Abortion Law has been one of the main topics of all election campaigns in Poland since 1989. Since 1993, there has been a law in Poland that prohibits the termination of pregnancy without...

Malaysia and Singapore: Separate Identities, Different priorities

An article from Stephen Chee published in Asian Survey, 1973 inspired me to write about Malaysia-Singapore relations- focusing mainly on a bilateral foreign relation of those two counties after the separation of Singapore from Malaysia in 1965. I’ve had the opportunity to travel to both of those countries and...

How Viktor Orbán Corrupted Democracy in Hungary

For Approximately the first two decades of Hungary’s post-communist history, Hungary was a young but stable democracy. International observers found Hungary as a model of a successful transition from authoritarianism to democracy (Beauchamp, 2018). Ever since 1990, the Hungarian political elite consistently underestimated the importance of welfare issues. The general...

Presidential Elections in Tajikistan

Presidential elections in Tajikistan held on 11th October 2020 ended with the expected result with the win of main favourite and current president Emomali Rahmon. Emomali Rahmon was re-elected in his fifth elections in a row, what allows him to continue to lead the country without break since 1992,...

The impact of armed conflict on children all over the world

"Adults go to war, but they don't realise what damage they are doing to children." ­Nicaraguan child It is said that children are our future. How can we make such statements when children living in different conditions, existing in conditions of fear, are subject to psychological and physical trauma? Combat activities and population...

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Challenges of Chinese Soft Power in Western Balkans

CAMR researcher Richard Straka’s work on the Challenges of the Chinese Soft Power has been looking into the spheres of influence within the Western...

Strategic Actions for Countering Far Right in Southeast Europe in the aftermath of EU Elections

CAMR founder and owner Halina Chraščová has participated in the seminar organized by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Dialogue Southeast Europe. During the seminar there were discussed actions...

New Tendencies on the Far–Right Scene in the Western Balkans. Mainstreaming the Extreme.

Educational conference following presentation of the research on the shifts in the far-right behaviour and the overall far-right scene in the Western Balkans was...

Brothers in Harm? The links between the Far Right in the Western Balkans and the European Union

The overarching objective of this ongoing research and educational initiative is to conduct a comprehensive examination of the intricate connections existing between the far-right...