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Nairobi: The daily chant of political resistance

New words emerge to describe, in slang, the memes and forms of expressing political opinions: terms filled with truth and demands

Why these Russian elections are different

Nobody doubts that Putin’s United Russia party will sweep the board in September's parliamentary elections. But the Kremlin is playing a dangerous new game with the electorate, one analyst writes.

South Korea’s Green Party makes history

Third time lucky for a candidate determined to disrupt the young democracy’s two-party system

When satire becomes unsafe in India

The parents of a Gen-Z icon fear for his safety after a government crackdown on his new cockroach-inspired political party

Protein, pork and power

How food culture is being weaponised by the far right, from raw-egg masculinity to nationalist school meal policies in Sweden

The “knowing child” against the cult of innocence

A meditation on socialist Yugoslavia’s radical tradition of children’s literature was and why it matters today

Kadyrov’s battle for Russia’s 500-Ruble note

As Russia redesigns its currency, Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov wages a symbolic war for visibility

Workers of all nations, relax!

Аn essay explores how 20th-century socialism brought tourism to the masses in Eastern and Central Europe

Legalise comedy

Romania’s evolving political satire reveals what jokes can say and what they can’t In this thoughtful and subtly sharp essay, Romanian writer Dan Panaet traces the country’s long, awkward relationship

The garage owner and the spies

A once-celebrated media personality and political fixer, Mehdi Ghezzar now finds himself sidelined as Franco-Algerian tensions have taken on a new, harder edge In an article for the French quarterly Revue

Last exit before autocracy

As Turkey reels from the detention of leading opposition figure Ekrem İmamoğlu, a Turkish political scientist analyses why this is truly the last exit before autocracy Ok. Imagine a game

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