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1 week ago | 
globalvoices.org | Malka Older |Daria Dergacheva |Mong Palatino |Mohamed Mohamud
This article was originally published in Russian on March 25, 2025, on Baikal People. Global Voices translated the article, edited it for clarity, and is republishing it with permission. People's names have been changed for safety. In the spring of 2024, US authorities began sending Russians who crossed the US–Mexico border to request political asylum into detention centers en masse.
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1 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | Jean de Dieu SOVON |Pamela Ephraim |Daria Dergacheva
Many developing countries receive development aid from USAID, a US government agency. The agency’s sudden freeze on funding will likely halt the progress of several African programs. Every year, the United States pledges more than USD 40 billion to humanitarian aid and international development in developing countries. In Africa, Togo is one of the countries where this aid plays a vital role in many aspects of its community development: education, health, security, and governance.
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1 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | Eastern Europe |Daria Dergacheva |Anna Romandash
The pause in foreign aid imposed by the new US administration has adversely affected numerous civil society, human rights and independent media projects in the Western Balkans. While the exact number of affected organizations is hard to estimate, they range in the hundreds.
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1 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | Pamela Ephraim |Jean de Dieu SOVON |Daria Dergacheva
In recent years, Nigeria has gained notoriety as a global hub for internet fraud, a subset of cybercrime popularly known by the slang “yahoo yahoo”, with fraudulent activities ranging from sextortion, email or romance scams to sophisticated hacking operations.
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1 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | Daria Dergacheva |Anna Romandash |Jean de Dieu SOVON
Independent Moldovan news outlet NewsMaker published an article about the Gagauz people, who live both in Moldova and Ukraine. Global Voices translated the article, edited for clarity, and republished it with permission from NewsMaker. How did the Gagauz people end up in Ukraine? At the beginning of the 19th century, Gagauz settlers from the Balkans established themselves in Budjak in the steppe region of southern Bessarabia.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Daria Dergacheva
Alyaksandr Lukashenka “won” the recent elections in Belarus with 86.82 percent of the vote, the Central Election Commission reported on January 27, 2025. The turnout, as stated, exceeded 85.7 percent. This is Lukashenka's seventh term; he has ruled Belarus for more than 30 years. In the neighboring European Union, however, he is not recognized as a legitimate president.
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2 months ago | 
es.globalvoices.org | Daria Dergacheva |Marina Garcia
Durante dos días seguidos, el 14 y el 15 de enero de 2025, aproximadamente un tercio de los usuarios de internet de Rusia no tuvo acceso a la mayoría de sitios web y plataformas. Un grupo de entusiastas con conocimientos tecnológicos, que ahora forman un nuevo tipo de sociedad civil rusa en el extranjero, dijeron literalmente, que hemos presenciado una “versión de prueba” de un cierre total de internet.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
tolerance.ca | Daria Dergacheva
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
globalvoices.org | Daria Dergacheva
For two days in a row, on January 14 and 15 2025, roughly a third of Russia's internet users could not access most websites or platforms. Enthusiasts with a technological background, who now form a new kind of Russian civil society group abroad, said, literally, that we have witnessed a “demo version” of a total internet shutdown.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
everand.com | Daria Dergacheva
Originally published on Global Voices For two days in a row, on January 14 and 15 2025, roughly a third of Russia's internet users could not access most websites or platforms. Enthusiasts with a technological background, who now form a new kind of Russian civil society group abroad, said, literally, that we have witnessed a “demo version” of a total internet shutdown.
