President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan looks determined to impose, in violation of the spirit of parliamentary democracy, his will over the government as Jan. 19, the date of the first Cabinet meeting he will preside over, draws near.
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday gave high-level support to pro-democracy protestors in Ukraine, declaring in a primetime speech that they should have a say in their country's future direction.
Western powers must close the road to presidency for Ukraine's leading neo-Nazi Dmytro Yarosh, the Russian Foreign Ministry's special envoy for democracy and supremacy of law, Konstantin Dolgov has written in Twitter.
Harvard University announced Friday that it had given an annual alumni achievement award to jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez for his "support of democracy and transparency."
"Common man" character created by legendary Indian cartoonist icon RK Laxman would live in our heart forever. RK Laxman cartoon collection speak a lot about democracy and no one better than him was able to explain the Indian daily life and politics with cartoons. Legendary Indian cartoonist RK Laxman has died in hospital at the age of 94 following multiple-organ failures.
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