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Democracy and society

Ritual > election

Putin’s only critical challenger is not allowed to run in the elections. Despite its power, the Kremlin is afraid of real alternatives

By Roland Bathon

DPA picture alliance/ Moses Sawasawa

Foreign and security policy

Bye-bye blue helmets

Violence between the military and rebels is escalating in eastern Congo. With the UN peacekeepers due to pull out, who will fill the power vacuum?

By Manuel Wollschläger

DPA picture alliance/ Manuel Balce

Democracy and society

Forewarned is forearmed

Trump represents a longstanding yearning for authoritarianism in America

By Jacob Heilbrunn

DPA picture alliance/ Jonathan Ernst

Work and digitalisation

Teaching Musk the rules of the game

Swedish trade unions have staged a historic strike to force Tesla into a collective agreement. Their success could benefit employees worldwide

By German Bender

picture alliance / Anadolu | Cem Ozdel

Democracy and society

Playing with fire

Senegal’s President Macky Sall unexpectedly postponed the presidential elections, already causing enormous political, social and economic consequences

By Claudia Ehing

Sara Meyer

Democracy and society

Guatemala’s long shadow of corruption

President Arévalo has promised to fight corruption. But he faces the mammoth task of dismantling the deeply flawed structures of his predecessors

By Sara Meyer

picture alliance / Reuters| Sam Wolfe

Foreign and security policy

Europe’s waking nightmare

While Trump is busy campaigning, European leaders are faced with an unnerving question: what will happen if he becomes president again?

By Paul Mason

picture alliance / Associated Press

Interviews

‘Azerbaijan is following an increasingly dark path’

President Aliyev has been re-elected. Bahruz Samadov from Baku on the repression of the opposition and the country’s turn away from the West