On 18 February, the first Russian citizen was convicted of working for a foreign “undesirable organisation” in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. As Polina Efimova reports, the city has a notorious track record of political prosecutions.
A Organização Mundial do Comércio termina 2020 na pior crise de sua história: sem diretor-geral e sem um tribunal para fazer cumprir as regras do comércio internacional.
La Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) termina 2020 sumida en la peor crisis de su historia, sin director general y sin tribunal para hacer cumplir las normas del comercio internacional.
While losing leverage on its neighbours, Putinist Russia has adopted a means of exerting influence and exercising control that is more characteristic of the secret police than diplomats. Only if Russia transforms into a genuine social democracy at home will we see change in its external actions.
After Putin, Russia's cultural consensus will package private property together with neo-colonialism, racism and Social Darwinism. The signs are already there.
