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Swedish policies will be influenced by far-right party

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SWEDEN

SD, previously a pariah, increased its vote share to 20.5%, from 17.5% in 2018. It is the largest rightist party in a bloc that has a three-seat majority. The centre-right parties…

Israeli poll will be referendum on premier’s character

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ISRAEL

This comes after Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit made his much-anticipated statement on February 28 that he intended to bring corruption charges against Netanyahu, pending…

Russia's FSB will benefit from instability

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RUSSIA

Four days earlier, Moscow's Lefortovo District Court charged a dual Russia-Lithuanian national with treason following espionage allegations by the FSB. As the Kremlin seeks to…

Montenegro election affords mandate for pro-EU policy

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MONTENEGRO

The Montenegrin strongman’s comfortable win in the presidential election on April 15.

Moldovan election may not bring Socialist government

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MOLDOVA

A range of parties, old and new, are battling for the attention of two broad electoral constituencies, one inclined towards Europe, and the other looking east to Russia. Moscow…

Disparate new Montenegrin government looks fragile

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MONTENEGRO

Decades of one-party rule by the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) ended at the August 30 elections, which delivered a stinging rebuke to veteran strongman Milo Djukanovic…

Hungary's Fidesz may change strategy vs Jobbik

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HUNGARY

The threat to ruling Fidesz from radical Jobbik.

Moscow's solution for protest region is ill-judged

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RUSSIA

Khabarovsk is entering a third week of sustained protests following the arrest of regional governor Sergey Furgal. The Kremlin has not responded to this act of rebellion and has…

Nordic far right may draw some voters but deter others

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SCANDINAVIA

Anna Koskela said she liked revving her car engine to scare young male immigrants from “underdeveloped countries” who ignored pedestrian crossings, describing them with a term…

Nazarbayev's re-election will boost Kazakh 'siloviki'

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KAZAKHSTAN

Three candidates competed for the country's supreme political office in the election on April 26. Unsurprisingly, Nazarbayev (74) won by a landslide, obtaining 97.7% of the total…