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Three Hong Kong democracy activists found guilty over June 4 assembly (Jessie Pang and Edmond Ng, Reuters)

A Hong Kong court found three prominent pro-democracy activists guilty on Thursday over an unauthorised assembly on June 4 last year to mark Beijing's...

Abkhazia’s ‘President’ Floats Idea to Lift Real Estate Purchase Restrictions for Russian Citizens (Zaal Anjaparidze, The Jamestown Foundation)

A new standoff is maturing around the long-standing issue of privatization of real estate in Georgia’s secessionist region of Abkhazia. On November 8, the...

Ossetian-Ingush Tensions Escalate Into Series of Clashes (Valery Dzutsati, The Jamestown Foundation)

During the first two weeks of November, ethnic Ossetians and Ingush in the Russian North Caucasus republic of North Ossetia–Alania skirmished on three separate...

President Zelenskyy Confronts Top Ukrainian Oligarch (Mykola Vorobiov, The Jamestown Foundation)

For the past several weeks, much of the world’s attention has been focused on an apparent Russian buildup of forces near the Ukrainian and...

Ukraine Looms Large in Biden-Putin Dialogue (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

Presidents Joseph Biden of the United States and Vladimir Putin of Russia held a one-on-one video-conference, on December 7—their fifth direct dialogue (three by...

The Asia-Europe Meeting needs to agree on a connectivity code of conduct (Shada Islam, Yeo Lay Hwee, Bart Gaens, East Asia Forum)

The 13th Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) on 25–26 November 2021 confirmed ASEM’s ambitions to become the ‘institutional home of connectivity’. The summit issued an...

The case for job creation hubs to reduce youth unemployment in Africa (Tejumola Abisoye, Brookings)

Youth unemployment remain a significant problem across Africa, with the rising population adding new layers of complexity to the challenge. Indeed, across Africa, estimates...

How we repair it: White Americans’ attitudes toward reparations (Ashley V. Reichelmann and Matthew O. Hunt, Brookings)

The United States is again at a crossroads of racial reckoning. The death of George Floyd and the 2020 summer of protests for racial...

What Americans still want from government reform: A fall 2021 update (Paul C. Light, Brookings)

President Joe Biden celebrated the first anniversary of his 2020 victory facing good news and bad about public demand for government reform and his...

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