Pavel Antonov This year’s WHO World No Tobacco Day feels grim for tobacco control advocates. On this day, we declare our readiness for active protest…
Andrey Kalikh, an experienced anti-corruption activist, was detained in the streets of Saint Petersburg on February 27, 2022 while protesting against Russia’s military invasion in…
Capsicum Oleoresin, or pepper-spray, a chemical weapon classified as a “less lethal” alternative to fire arms, was most likely used by Bulgarian riot police and…
Journalist Dimitar Kenarov was brutally kicked in the head by police during anti-corruption riots in Sofia, Bulgaria, on the night of September 2, 2020. Earlier…
One of New Zeland’s darkest days, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called it – the day when a far-right Christian extremist took 49 lives of Muslims…
Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, announced the Vatican’s plans to hold a special assembly devoted to the environmental problems of…
Illiberal governments attack civil society because it is able to control them, argues professor Balazs Trencsenyi, Head of the Department of History at the Central…
The European Union’s goal to become climate neutral by 2050 needs joint effort to decarbonise its power sector. Yet, a “coal curtain” still seem to…
The Romanian ruling coalition is undermining the rule of law at the moment when Romania is preparing to take over for the first time the…
Bulgaria’s civil society celebrated a major victory for nature protection and the rule of law when the country’s Supreme Administrative Court ultimately rejected an environmental…
