With Vladimir Putin encouraging the Belarusian President to work more closely with the country's opposition and Russia's own "managed" elections in 2021, Russian politics are more complicated than a simple dictatorship.
Scotland’s election on May 6 saw the Scottish National Party (SNP) win 64 of 129 seats in Holyrood, Scotland’s Parliament. Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of the SNP, takes this win—the latest in a series of four consecutive wins for the party—as a mandate to press ahead with a second referendum for Scottish independence.
The international community has characterized the current international investment system as a “backlash against Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS)”.[1]…