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Recent events in the South Caucasus show how the authoritarian playbook is exported and adapted to suit local contexts. From Armenia’s clergy allegedly plotting coups, to Azerbaijan raiding Russian ...

Borders are liminal, notional spaces made more unstable by unparalleled migration, geopolitical ambition and the use of technology to transcend and, conversely, reinforce borders. Perhaps the most ...

A ban on protests is raising deep questions about who is considered part of the nation and what, exactly, Germany has learned from its history.

The International Centre for Migration Policy Development is arming countries along European borders with surveillance tech and training to keep migrants out of Europe.

Anti-5G campaigners and conspiracy theorists have gone into overdrive since the outbreak of the coronavirus began. In groups and forums across social media, they have been working overtime to try to ...

Former Soviet Republics have a lot in common with countries that have struggled against Western colonialism. So why don't we tend to see Russia as a colonizer?

Librarians across the country are under threat as efforts to ban books about marginalized groups reach a fever pitch.

An underground network of wildlife enthusiasts and their billionaire backers claim they’re restoring Europe’s biodiversity. But some scientists say they could destroy it.

In small-town Kazakhstan, an experiment with the “smart city” model has some residents smiling. But it also signals the start of a new mass surveillance era for the Central Asian nation.