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Vladimir Putin has been in power for over 25 years. Screenshot of a video from DW YouTube channel. Fair Use. The elections from March 15 to 17 are the fifth ones for Vladimir Putin, who has been in power for over 25 years. Many observers have called this a formal ‘electoral procedure’, not real elections because in absence of a free press, repression of all forms of dissent, and failure to admit any even slightly independent candidates, have long been a feature of Putin's elections. However, just like in the Soviet times, the current regime needs people to come to the polls in order to show th...
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Radio Free Asia’s report on the Article 23 legislation in Hong Kong on March 13, 2024. Photo: Kelly Ho/HKFP. Used with permission. This report was written by Kelly Ho and originally published in Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) on March 14, 2024. An edited version is published below as part of a content partnership agreement with HKFP. US funded-news outlet Radio Free Asia (RFA), which had been accused of being “anti-China” by Beijing-backed newspapers, is set to withdraw from Hong Kong, according to local media reports. HK01 and the South China Morning Post, among others, reported on March 13 that...
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Beloved Trinbagonian nuts vendor Keith ‘Jumbo’ Martin, at Woodford Square in Port of Spain, August 11, 2023. Photo by Maria Nunes, used with permission. If you're a cricket fan and have seen a match in the Caribbean, Keith “Jumbo” Martin would be a familiar name — and face. As the cameras panned away from the field and into the crowd during slow moments of the match, international sports commentators would sometimes take to talking about Jumbo as he pelted his packs of warm peanuts — plain, salted or honey-roasted — into the stands with razor-sharp precision. His natural charisma added such lo...
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Screenshot of Vbyz Kartel (Adidja Palmer) taken from the YouTube video by Dancehall Agenda entitled ‘Vybz Kartel Final 24 Hours In Prison Possibly.’ At 11 o'clock on the morning of March 14, the Jamaican media waited breathlessly for the UK Privy Council to present its ruling on the appeal in the case of 48-year-old dancehall deejay Adija Palmer (stage name, Vybz Kartel) and three associates (Shawn Campbell, Kahira Jones and Andre St. John), hoping to be the first to break the news. Almost exactly 10 years earlier, on March 13, 2014, the four had been found guilty of the 2011 murder of Clive “...
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Mo Yan. Image by Bengt Nyman via Wikimedia under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. This post was written by Alex Colville and originally published in the China Media Project on March 11, 2024. An edited version is published below as part of a content partnership agreement with the China Media Project. A spat about the patriotism of one of China’s most celebrated writers has been blown out of proportion on the Chinese internet, thanks to harsher nationalist laws and an increasingly rabid cancel culture. One of China’s most celebrated modern authors is in the firing line, and...
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Image by Arzu Geybullayeva On March 8, 2024, Azerbaijan's capital Baku officially welcomed the guests of the international conference, “Embracing Diversity: Tackling Islamophobia in 2024.” The event was organized by the Centre for Analysis of International Relations and the Baku International Centre for Multiculturalism in partnership with the G20 Interfaith Dialogue Forum and the Baku Initiative Group. The event took place just days ahead of March 15, the International Day To Combat Islamophobia, as designated by the United Nations in 2022. Although not attending in person, Azerbaijani Presid...
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The Perito Moreno glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina. Photo by Amanderson2 on Flickr. CC BY 2.0 DEED. This article was written by David Feliba and published in Climate Home News on February 13, 2024. An edited version is republished by Global Voices under a media partnership agreement. Argentina’s new free-market president Javier Milei is pushing for a rollback in environmental regulation, endangering forests and glaciers. Milei, who has called climate change a “socialist lie,” has tried to ease restrictions on mining near glaciers and remove protections for forests. But the mov...
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Image by Arzu Geybullayeva Nika Melia, the former chair of the opposition United National Movement (UNM) party, and Nika Gvaramia, the founder of the opposition TV channel Mtavari Arkhi, have joined forces ahead of the parliamentary election scheduled for October 2024. The two officially unveiled their new political alliance, Akhali (meaning “new” in English), on March 11. According to Gvaramia, Akhali hopes to push “for changes in Georgia in new ways. Our fight, our belief in victory has a concrete name from now on and that name is Ahali [“new”]….full focus on the future…we are not evaluating...
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Arzu Geybullayeva On March 8, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said the upcoming municipal election scheduled for March 31 would be his last. Although he is not running himself, the President has been campaigning for his party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), ahead of the local elections, with eyes set on winning back major cities, including Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir. All three are currently run by the opposition Republican People Party (CHP). So why make the announcement in the first place when he was re-elected as the country's president in a contested election in May 2023 with four...
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Ingat, an anthology by domestic workers in Hong Kong. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Used with permission. This report was written by Hillary Leung and originally published in Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) on March 9, 2024. An edited version is published below as part of a content partnership agreement with HKFP. Maria Editha Garma-Respicio fondly recalls her teenage years writing for her school newspaper, reading in the library and penning poems about love. Growing up in Tuguegarao, a city in the northern Philippines, she sought solace in the written word when all else seemed to be falling apart. “I wro...
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