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democracy & powerControl over people's lives is shifting beyond the grasp of traditional institutions. Democracy is embraced as a vision, but can be endlessly frustrated or disappointing in practice.
This new reign of two Tsars will be unstable. But whatever happens, a democratic future is inevitable.
Why do some countries achieve independence and not others? Blame "post-colonial sequestration syndrome"
Three years after the Uzbek massacre, Germany leads a shameful collusion with Islam Karimov's brutal regime
Russia both fears and seeks to emulate Europe. Today they are apart. But not forever...
The Chinese netizens mobilising against western media distortions should also look in the mirror
What does the new Russian president want, and can he make the job his own?
South Africa's shifting attitude towards Zimbabwe may have decisive effects in both countries
A many-sided argument over autonomy for Bolivia's eastern region is coming to a climax
Vietnam’s official memory has no place for Hoang Minh Chinh, an honourable critic who embraced democracy
Rwanda’s people, refusing to be trapped in or defined by the 1994 genocide, write a new chapter in their history
The political and legal crisis in Turkey highlights a vital European interest
A former Catholic bishop defeats the world's longest-serving ruling party (archive)
A lively London market offers a fresh view of the old story of England as a "heritage in danger"
Paraguayans have written a fresh page in world history - twice over. Now for the hard part...
A group of leading specialists on Tibet from around the world write to China's president
How Beijing can defuse the negative publicity around the Olympics, Tibet and Xinjiang
Why the third coming of Silvio Berlusconi is bad news for Italy, for Europe and for democracy
A legal case against Turkey's ruling party reopens the country's secular-Islamist argument
The failures of Georgia's post-Soviet transition have created a "hybrid regime" where key political changes are decided in the streets
The Italian state's crisis of legitimacy is ready to propel its leading political showman back to power
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