Political opportunities and mobilisation on the far-right in UkraineTamta Gelashvili
There are also growing fears in Ukraine that Azov and other far-right militias could ultimately turn on its new rulers, whom they see not as representatives of the revolution but of a venal oligarchy that has dominated the country for decades. Russia's annexation of Crimea ...
The far right racked up wins across much of Europe in the EU Parliamentary elections that just concluded.
The far right has tapped into voter frustration over high inflation, the war in Ukraine and the COVID pandemic. It has also built on worries about migration. In its election program, titled “Fortress Austria,” the Freedom Party calls for “remigration of uninvited foreign...
In places where the right has taken power, like Italy, where Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's party doubled the number of its members in the EU parliament, it has not been a radical break. Meloni has kept her country as part of the coalition supporting Ukrai...
About 3.3 million people were eligible to vote in Saxony and nearly 1.7 million in Thuringia. The left populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), which like the AfD demands stricter controls on immigration and wants to stop arming Ukraine, came third in both states, with up to 16% of the ...
"The crises of previous years, from the COVID pandemic to Russia's war in Ukraine and the ensuing energy crises, have given the AfD new opportunities to play on fear and spread hate." Image:Currency and a savings book of the Kingdom of Germany ...
Leaders of France’s new leftist alliance have warned that the far right is “at the door of power.” Allied in a coalition known as the New Popular Front, they outlined their plan to prevent the surging far right from taking power in upcoming national l
who is nearly half way through his four-year term as u.n. rights chief and whose job is to speak out against attacks on freedoms, said he had hoped to use his position to make an impact on global issues like climate change. however, he said wars including those in gaza...
the 21-year-old US airman who likes guns and racist chat, recently arrested under suspicion of leaking secret documents about the Ukraine war. From Brazil to Germany, the far right appears over-represented in spy services and militaries. That threatens...