The April 2026 presidential election in Vietnam resulted in the unanimous appointment of Tô Lâm as State President, consolidating his simultaneous role as General Secretary of the Communist Party. This marks a…
Hungarian pastor Gábor Iványi, a well-known critic of Viktor Orbán, stated that the Hungarian prime minister uses the ideas of Christian nationalism as an electoral tool without genuinely adhering to them, and…
The appointment of Min Aung Hlaing as president in 2026 represents not a democratic transition, but the institutionalization of military rule under a civilian veneer. Although formally “elected” through a parliamentary process, the…
Executive Summary The discovery of explosives near a major gas pipeline in northern Serbia—part of the TurkStream/Balkan Stream system supplying Russian gas to Hungary—is a highly politicized and strategically sensitive incident. While…
The local elections held in Serbia on 29 March across ten municipalities were expected to serve as a routine democratic exercise. Instead, they exposed a deeply troubling environment characterized by violence,…
Following an attack by a Russian Shahed-type drone on an electrical substation in the city of Perechyn (Zakarpattia region, approximately 10 km from the Ukrainian–Slovak border), Slovak President Peter Pellegrini initiated the introduction of…
