21+ hour, 48+ min ago  (1679+ words) New research shows how average, frustrated and career-blocked employees can become ideal fulcrums for authoritarian leaders (New York Times; 6yka. com) Even the most powerful autocrats cannot rule alone. Vladimir Putin in Russia relies on a select circle of oligarchs. In…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (576+ words) The Kremlin has intensified efforts to accelerate the fall of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, whose popularity in the country is declining, and to strengthen the growing pro-Russian forces on the German far right, writes the Brussels-based portal Politiko. Russian President…...