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The real Zelensky: From celebrity populist to unpopular Pinochet-style neoliberal

Natylie Baldwin
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Ukrainian academic Olga Baysha details Volodymyr Zelensky’s embrace of widely loathed neoliberal policies, his repression of rivals, and how his actions fueled the current war with Russia. A comedic actor who rose to the country’s...

EU’s externalization of borders enables geopolitical power plays using migrants as political pawns

Vladimir Mitev
European Union
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Ahlam Chemlali, is a PhD Fellow at DIIS – Danish Institute for International Studies and Aalborg University, Global Refugee Studies in Copenhagen Denmark. Chemlali explores how the militarisation and externalisation of European border control to...

Reading Žižek in Tehran

Vladimir Mitev
Art & culture
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In a world of capital words easily become cliche-ridden and therefore devoid of power to change anything. Whom should we rely on to challenge the status-quo? Kamran Baradaran - an Iranian translator of Slavoj Žižek,...

Anti-Iranian sanctions can be reduced, but will not be lifted completely

Vladimir Mitev
Economy & finance
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Mehdi Motaharnia (born 1965, Kashan) is a university professor with a background in sociology, political science, communication, futurology and security. He is a professor at Islamic Free University in Gom, central Tehran; in North Tehran...

Hans Modrow: Gorbachev and his associates knew what they wanted to remove, but not what to build

The Barricade
Bulgaria
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Hans Modrow is known as the last "communist" prime minister of the German Democratic Republic. He was born in 1928 in the province of Pomerania, located in present-day Poland. At the end of World War...

Fereydoun Majlessi: Extremists did not allow Rouhani to keep his word

Vladimir Mitev
China
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Fereydoun Majlessi is a former diplomat, who served in Washington DC and in Brussels in the European community before the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Since then he has been a manager and an entrepreneur, as...

Romanian government threatens unions after protest in the Bucharest metro

Vladimir Mitev
Interviews
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Romanian Prime Minister Florin Cîţu is seeking to sanction protesters who blocked the Bucharest metro on Friday, an action Cîţu described as "illegal". The Prime Minister said he would be looking for the culprits to...

Ailbhe Smyth: “We need a discussion about abortion on a pan-European scale, linked to a disc..

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
Citizens Movements
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Ailbhe Smyth co-founded the Coalition to Repeal the 8th Amendment in 2013, a broad civil society platform to fight for the removal of the near-total ban on abortion inserted in the Irish Constitution in 1983. The Coalition went...

Gorbachev turned 90

Cecilia Capanna
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Mikhail Gorbachev is undoubtedly the most important positive historical figure of our time. From 1985 to 1991, in just six years, he changed world history by contributing to the fall of the Berlin Wall in...

“The covid vaccine was created thanks to public money – let it be a public property!”

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
Citizens Movements
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The Left in the European Parliament officially supports the the European Citizens' Initiative No Profit on Pandemic for free and universal access to a Covid-19 vaccine and treatments for everyone. [caption id="attachment_3041" align="alignleft" width="450"] Marc Botenga (source: Wikimedia...