The new
President, who replaced longtime dictator Robert Mugabe, announced elections will
be held by July. However, the ruling
party has a history of intolerance of freedom of dissent and of rigging
elections.
Update: Czech Republic
The
pro-Russian President narrowly won reelection over a pro-Western challenger,
with support from the Russian
Federation .
Russia
orchestrated a smear campaign against the challenger while financially
supporting the campaign manager for the incumbent. Russia
has been interfering in foreign elections and referendums throughout Europe and
even in the United States
presidential election of 2016.
Thousands
of protestors took the streets in several cities across Russia this weekend, attempting to
exercise the freedom of peaceful assembly, which is not tolerated by Vladimir
Putin’s regime. Hundreds of
demonstrators were arrested, including the opposition leader, Alexei Navalny,
whom the dictatorship prohibited from participating in the presidential elections
scheduled for this spring. Some of the
arrests even took place in raids targeting the opposition before the protests
began. The protests were in opposition
to corruption and the loss of liberty, including the banning of Navalny.
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