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As Dimitar Bechev does, we too grouped the countries led by the regimes of Orbán, Vučić and Ivanishvili into what we called 'autocratizing hybrids'. All three of these regimes exhibit similar challenges:

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This🧵by Dimitar Bechev is spot on and matches much of what we've laid out in this year's edition of Freedom House Nations in Transit report.

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If I may, a few of my own thoughts to add to Dimitar's important point 🧵🔽

The new #Serbian  🇷🇸 government announced its plans in parliament today. The cornerstones will be 'political independence' and 'military neutrality'. It will also propose a mandatory military service of four months (previously abolished in 2011): danas.rs/bbc-news-serbi…

I strongly condemn the violence against protesters in Georgia who were peacefully demonstrating against the law on foreign influence. Georgia is an EU candidate country, I call on its authorities to ensure the right to peaceful assembly.Use of force to suppress it is unacceptable

The jump in Romania is remarkable.

A very important point that a whole lotta people miss.

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20 years ago Slovakia and Slovenia were united in diversity.
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Excellent observations on European populist regimes. I'm currently working on a piece which explores the impact of these very populist regimes on economic growth, so I'm thinking along similar lines.

SITREP 🇺🇦 DAY 798

1. Anther night, another refinery: Rosneft in Ryazan burns
2. Again: ATACMS (TBC) vs Dzhankoy & Gvardeyskoye
3. Bad: 🇺🇦 forces retreat in Donbas
4. ECB finally squeezing out Raiffeisen, Unicredit, ING out of 🇷🇺
5. Stoltenberg in Kyiv says 🇺🇦's place is in NATO

#NEW : Join us this Thursday at 9am for a book talk between Maria Snegovaya Michael Kimmage & M.E. Sarotte for Michael's latest book, 'Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability.'
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Scenes of incredible police brutality in Tbilisi last night, following Ivanishvili’s anti-Western rant. #Georgia has seen this many times, when authorities enslaved by power have to face the power of free people. We know the ending! #NotoRussianLaw