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Uganda’s January 15, 2026 Elections: Managed Continuity, High Repression Risk, and Uncertain Post-Vote Stability

Uganda heads into presidential and parliamentary elections on 15 January 2026 under conditions that strongly favor the incumbent and constrain the opposition’s ability to campaign and mobilize. The Electoral Commission has formally…

January 8, 2026elections, Uganda

Governance

Central African Republic Elections 2025–26: Consolidation Without Consensus

The general elections held on 28 December 2025 in the Central African Republic (CAR) have provisionally returned incumbent President Faustin-Archange Touadéra to power for a third term, with 76.15% of the vote, on a turnout of roughly 52.4%. …

January 7, 2026CAR, elections

Drug trafficking Governance Intelligence ops National Security

Decapitation Strategy in Caracas: The Logic, Timing, and Consequences of the U.S. Operation in Venezuela

In the early hours of 3 January 2026, the United States launched Operation Southern Spear, a large-scale strike against Venezuela that targeted key military facilities around Caracas and other locations in…

January 3, 2026USA, Veneuela

Governance

Iran’s Protests: Drivers, Actors, Consequences, and External Dimensions

Protests in Iran are no longer episodic political turbulence — they represent a persistent structural crisis within the Islamic Republic. Since 2017, waves of unrest have periodically erupted: economic protests (2017–2019),…

January 2, 2026Iran

Conflict Governance

Northern Kosovo and Serbia’s strategy of permanent instability

An explosion that was never just about water. When an explosion damaged the Ibër-Lepenc water canal in northern Kosovo on 29 November 2024, it was initially framed as an attack…

December 19, 2025Kosovo, Serbia

Democracy Governance Intelligence ops

Envelopes of Cash: Russian Espionage and Influence Operations in the European Parliament”

During a debate in the European Parliament titled “Cases of Pro-Russian Espionage in the European Parliament,”participants stated the need to establish a special body tasked with investigating the possible involvement of…

December 19, 2025

Democracy Geopolitics Governance ideology National Security

From Partner to Principal Threat: How Russia Chose Confrontation—and What It Could Have Been

In first speech after taking office, Blaise Metreweli, the head of Britain’s intelligence service MI6, warned that Russia represents an aggressive, expansionist, and revisionist threat. Metreweli stated that assassination plots, sabotage, cyberattacks, and…

December 16, 2025Russia

Corruption Democracy Governance Propaganda and Disinformation

Protecting the Kremlin While Ignoring the Children: Orbán’s Response to Hungary’s Deepening Trust Crisis in Hungary Crisis

On 13 December 2025, a mass march took place in Budapest toward the office of Hungary’s prime minister on Castle Hill under the slogan “Protect the Children!”. Protesters carried torches and soft…

December 15, 2025Hungary

Democracy Governance

Elections Without Choice: Power, Ethnicity, and Foreign Influence in Congo-Brazzaville

Presidential elections are scheduled in the Republic of the Congo in 2026. Incumbent president Denis Sassou Nguesso, in power continuously since 1997 (and earlier from 1979–1992), is widely expected to run again…

December 12, 2025Congo-Brazzaville

Governance National Security

The Failure of Export Controls: A Legislative Blueprint to Prevent Technology from Powering Russia’s War Machine

On December 10, 2025, Bloomberg reported that five lawsuits had been filed in a Texas court against Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Texas Instruments, and Mouser Electronics—a distributor owned by Warren…

December 11, 2025Russia, Sanctions, USA

Governance

Uganda’s January 15, 2026 Elections: Managed Continuity, High Repression Risk, and Uncertain Post-Vote Stability

Central African Republic Elections 2025–26: Consolidation Without Consensus

Decapitation Strategy in Caracas: The Logic, Timing, and Consequences of the U.S. Operation in Venezuela

Iran’s Protests: Drivers, Actors, Consequences, and External Dimensions

Northern Kosovo and Serbia’s strategy of permanent instability

Envelopes of Cash: Russian Espionage and Influence Operations in the European Parliament”

From Partner to Principal Threat: How Russia Chose Confrontation—and What It Could Have Been

Protecting the Kremlin While Ignoring the Children: Orbán’s Response to Hungary’s Deepening Trust Crisis in Hungary Crisis

Elections Without Choice: Power, Ethnicity, and Foreign Influence in Congo-Brazzaville

The Failure of Export Controls: A Legislative Blueprint to Prevent Technology from Powering Russia’s War Machine

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