On 2nd February 2021, Alexei Navalny was sentenced to a penal colony for two years and eight months by a Moscow court. [1] On 5th February, he was again summoned to court, where he was charged for insulting a war veteran. [2] However, the 2nd February verdict was enough for the
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BOSNIA MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS 2020: FIRST LOCAL VOTE IN 12 YEARS
After 12 years, Municipal elections in Mostar, Bosnia have taken place whereby nationalists parties is believed will win a landslide victory. The city embodies hatred of the conflict that led to widespread mass killing. The leaders of today from these parties are campaigning on the lines of bread and butter
WHY DO WOMEN NOT GO INTO POLITICS?
The aim of political life is the betterment of our society and at the crux of this aim lies the process of decision making. Our current society is plagued with several imperfections and inequalities of various kinds. Gender inequality is something that may hinder India’s annual economic growth by almost
EUROPE: EAST, WEST AND THE GULF BETWEEN
The eastern and western half of Europe have a huge gap in the socio-economic sphere. East European countries are plagued by the lack of a social security contract leading to high social inequalities, strong social disintegration, egotistic individualism and extensive destitution and poverty. There has been minuscule progress in addressing
NORDIC ECONOMIC MODEL – IS THE GRASS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE?
At the time when the world’s richest 1% own 44% of the wealth and the lowest 56.6% people own less than 2% of the global wealth (source), many of the scholars, economists, politicians and policymakers are looking for ways to remedy the situation. In this backdrop, the Scandinavian countries of
UNFOLDING THE UNLIT CHAPTER OF INDIA: JP MOVEMENT
In 1973 when the whole world was suffering from the oil crisis, India was also among one of the many countries facing the repercussions of the rising prices. The country’s economy was in a dire state with increasing poverty and unemployment. With this going on, came the Gujarat riots, also